A Day At Laguerres And Other Days Being Nine Sketches

Author : Francis Hopkinson Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9781331167082
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book A Day at Laguerre's and Other Days written by Francis Hopkinson Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Day at Laguerre's and Other Days: Being Nine Sketches These slight sketches are the records, I must confess, of some more idle days stolen from a busy and far more practical life. I have committed these depredations upon myself for years, and have then run off to the far corners of the earth and sat down in some forgotten nook to enjoy my plunder. The villainy, strange to say, has only served to open my eyes the wider - and my heart too for that matter - and to bring me closer to many fellow tramps who have delighted my soul, and still do. Idle tramps if you will, who love the sunlight and simple fare and simple ways; ne'er-do-wells, who haunt the cafes and breakfast at twelve; vagrants made millionaires by a melon and a cigarette; mendicants who own a donkey and a pair of panniers, have three feast days a week, earn but half a handful of copper coin, and sing all day for the very joy of living. 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."