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Excerpt from The Overland Monthly, Vol. 66: July December, 1914
Shooting again last night? Mrs. Mccracken raised an interrogative eyebrow as she poured the coffee. Oh, yes, so there was; I had forgot ten that we were awakened. It hap pens so often nowadays that we sel dom notice it. Probably it was some of the pirates from Tai Tong plun dering another launch. 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.