Excerpt from The Story of Chanticleer The Nightingale is done for 126 One must keep abreast of new ideas, you know 127 Oh, you Toads! Cried Chanticleer 128 A feeling of deep discouragement swept over him 131 The old dog hung his head 134 The Sexton Beetles come to dig his grave 135 What treachery! He groaned 136 The Pheasant shut her eyes and waited 143. 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.