Excerpt from A Gentleman From France: An Airedale Hero His American friends described in these pages were the author and his wife. Pierre came to us one Sunday morning while we were at breakfast just as de scribed. We saw at once that he was a gentleman, in hard circumstances, and so took him in. 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.