Excerpt from Confessions of a Book Agent Why it was called The Rookery I never learned, and I am still at a loss to know, as I never saw crow or rook within fifty miles of it; in fact the only birds I ever did see near it were sparrows which were sadly off color, and pigeons against which Noah would have shut his dove cote in dis gust, if they had attempted to board the ark, with or without evidences of dry land. The dusky hue of the building itself may have had something to do with its nomenclature, per haps, but any self-respecting rook would feel deep chagrin at the comparison. 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.