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Excerpt from Of High Descent, Vol. 1: A Novel
Many a poor lad's been took like that, Mr. Luke, sir, said the speaker, and never heard of again. Why, if I hadn't called out, it would have took you Off your legs, and the current's so strong here you'd have been swept away. 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.
