Roger North, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Roger North, Vol. 3 It was between the hours Of five and Six, a time which with many families is emphatically the children's hour. Near the fire sat the mother. She held a three-year-old girl, blue-eyed and golden-haired, in her arms; while a sturdy boy, a year or SO older, pressed his eager face against her shoulder. Both the children were looking at the gaudy pictures in a volume which the mother held; both were listening with the deepest interest to the adventures Of puss-in-boots, as though they had not heard them twenty times before. Beyond the Open folding-doors could be seen another group. Seated on the floor was a girl Of barely twelve, and by her Side a toddling baby brother. With one hand she built towers Of bricks, with the other held him back, until screaming with joyous laughter he escaped her grasp, and in a moment his mischief-loving hands had levelled her structure to the ground. 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.