Excerpt from Tom Pippin's Wedding: A Novel How do you suppose that schoolmasters and school mistresses make their money and retire? Why, by stale bread that the wretched children cannot chew; and rancid butter', of which a little goes a surprisingly long way; and the nasty parts of the sheep or cow which the butcher can't get any one else to take Off his hands; and a draughty school-room without a fire on a damp October night, to save sixpennyworth of coal, and one blanket on the miserable bed, when the poor little boy would have shivered under three. 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.