Excerpt from Guy Harris, the Runaway See here Guy! Exclaimed Tom as he came up, I have just been over to you1 house, where I found my pigeon, which I lost about a week ago. Your mother said it came to your barn, and that you shut it up to keep it for me. Now that was a neighborly act, and I want to repay it. Here's that box you have so often tried to buy from me. As Tom said this he pulled his hand out of his pocket and gave Guy the article in question, which proved to be a brass match - box. It was not a very valuable thing, but it had a revolving top secured by a curiously contrived spring, was stamped all over with figures of wild ducks, deer and rabbits, and was altogether different from any thing of the kind that Guy had ever seen before. For some reason or other he had long shown a desire to obtain possession of this box, but the owner could not be induced to part with 113. 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.