Excerpt from Jonquille, or the Swiss Smuggler: Translated From the French of T. Combe Manuel thought to himself, As I shall never e able to file, what is the use of trying to learn?' A few days later, while he was boring a hole, e drove the drill into his hand. 'the trade 1 getting into you, ' said his father; but his and swelled up and was useless for a day r two, and the only result was that he got holiday, which he spent in scrambling about 1e woods, coming back from them with a reator longing than before for an open-air fe. However, at the end of three weeks, be ad learnt to file pretty well. 'you take your me about it, ' said his father; 'at this rate on will be ten years before you're a work ian.' 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.