Tom Racquet and His Three Maiden Aunts

Excerpt from Tom Racquet and His Three Maiden Aunts: With a Word or Two About But the individual thus addressed, at no time remarkable for a quick apprehension, was so completely confounded between the sudden appearance of the gentleman from the area, the knock on the nose, the consequent bleeding thereof, and the bawling and bullying of Old Whittlebury to hit him on the head with the poker, that he lost the only minute allowed him for escape, and, despite the scufiling and imploring of his dearly beloved Susan, stood stock still with amazement. 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.