The Book Without A Name Vol 2 Of 2 Classic Reprint

Author : E. D. Gerard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330916087
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Reata written by E. D. Gerard and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reata: What's in a Name, Vol. 2 of 3 There were the bookbinder, the apothecary, the sacristan, the carpenter, shining foremost in the ranks, and leading on the lower portion, consisting of six or seven apprentices and two or three waiters, to honour and glory. According to this system, whenever a chimney was on fire, every tradesman in the place would drop his occupation like a hot potato and precipitate himself on to the scene of action - having, of course, first put on his gorgeous uniform and donned his shining helmet. Thus the bookbinder would fling away his half-bound book, the apothecary would leave standing his half-mixed pills, the barber abandon his half-shaved victim, the sacristan put down the censer of smoking incense and desert the cure, leaving him to bury the dead or baptise the living as best he could without help. Whether this arrangement would answer in the long-run, was a question which as yet remained unanswered. The promising institution had only sprung into life a month ago, and its valuable qualities had not as yet been called to the test. In the meantime everybody was very sanguine and very pleased with their helmets. They had also constructed a sort of skeleton edifice of wood, for practising scaling walls and the saving of life; and every Sunday afternoon they marched about the town in order, and, of course, in full uniform, with the apothecary at the head, and the two youngest waiters beating drums. 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.