Jack Downing´s Letters (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Downing, Jack) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Jack Downing´s Letters I went into Burgess & Stringer´s book-store ´tother day, under the great Museum Buildings opposite the Astor House, and was kind of shying round, and lookin´ at the everlastin´ sight of books they´ve got - as much as two cart-loads on the counter, clear from one end to ´tother, packed down in rows side by side, jest like the bricks of the side-walks in New-York, or of Uncle Joshua´s kitchen harth in Downingville, besides as much as twenty cart-loads piled up round on the shelves. I begun at one end of the long counter, and was takin´ a kind of raking view of the titles, and when I´d got over about a rod and a half of ´em, along come Mr. Burgess, lookin´ as good natured as if he couldn´t help it. And says he - "Major Downing, how are ye? I havn´t seen you this long time; where have you kept yourself?" "O," says I, "all about in spots, and the rest of the time at home with Polly. But," says I, "Mr. Burgess, for gracious sake, you don´t expect there´s folks enough in America to read all these books, do you?" "Read all these!" says he, "why, Major Downing, here is n´t half a mouthful for ´em. There´s a plaguy sight more folks in America, Major, than you think for; and the way they swallow down these things is a caution to old rags and paper-makers, I can tell ye. 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.
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