Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Prisoner of the Gurkhas
In this deplorable ambition even his headmaster would willingly have admitted the lad's unqualified success; and as for cricket and football, was he not cock of the school? Jack was simply a well-made English boy, healthy bodied and healthy-minded, rather short for his age, with hair that was inclined to be red - though to call it carroty would be a libel - a freckled face, a merry expression and a pair of honest, steadfast eyes. 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.