Excerpt from Littell's Living Age, Vol. 30: July, August, September, 1851 This young Lama of eighty years old was a large well made fellow, whose lumbering and stout figure seemed to prove a great consumption of butter, in his strict seclusion. We could never see him put his nose out of his house door, without thinking of La Fontaine's rat, who, out of devotion, had retired into a Dutch cheese. 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.