Excerpt from Maurice Guildford: Or the Trials of a Small Boy But this is what the Clock had to do with his trial. While roving about one evening in the dining-room at play, in the character of a pirate at sea, he had moored his vessel to a footstool Close to it, and was Sitting watching to pounce upon any rich merchantman that might be cruising in the straits between the sofa and the window-seat, when it struck him all at once that there was a giant asleep in the clock case. 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.