Excerpt from The Peterkin Papers Mrs. Peterkin shrank from this; it would make the whole matter more public than ever. Mr. Peterkin asked if she would prefer a book of their adventures she declared that she would, for there would be the covers, which would seem to shut it up, and make the matter less public. Mr. Peterkin thought a book might contain other adventures of the family. Solomon John would have written a book before now, if he had known what to write. Ty not mention that fact? The history of their troubles with keys would explain in part the difficulty of get ting into their own house the night of the Car nival, for if Agamemnon's invention of one key alone necessary, had been patented, they would have been saved this perplexity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.