Smuggler: A Tale (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Smuggler: A Tale<br><br>After the tale had penetrated into the little village in which its first scenes are laid a sanctified and tip sily-inclined butcher of the place ran one day after a stage-coach on which was mounted an acquaintance of the writers'' and.wroth at being pleased to suppose himself ''sketched by their pun requested the person spoken of to inform us that some time or other he would hunt us from Dan to Beersheba. As to people of higher degree it is known in the town from which we date these lines that an honourable individual who chose to see himself re?ected in an agreeable scamp of title in our poor Novel talked even more awfully though quite as. Harmlessly as the field preaching Butcher Fell.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.