Excerpt from Burglar Bill: And Other Pieces for the Use of the Young Reciter; With Introduction, Remarks, and Stage-Directions These things being so, a Manual by which these surely not undesirable results are brought within the compass of the meanest capacity should require but little in the way of apology. The Compiler cannot - for Obvious personal reasons - advise that the poems to be recited should be the exclusive pro duct of the Reciter's own Muse; nor can he hold forth any reasonable prospect that a pupil who has mastered the art of recitation, will be able to save his life thereby in situations Of bodily peril; for such a course should only be resorted to at the last instance, and even then - now that the ancient Syracusans have ceased to exist - will not improbably precipitate, rather than avert, the doom of him who should venture to adopt it. 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.