Excerpt from The Rover, 1844, Vol. 2: A Weekly Magazine of Tales, Poetry, and Engravings Mr. Frier sat and looked Jerry calmly in the face, without utterings syllable; while he, having blown his blast, marched out of doors, and steered directly for the grog-shop, leaving his wife to pick up some thing, if she could, to keep herself and children from absolute starvation. 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.