Excerpt from Stable Secrets: Or Puffy Doddles; His Sayings and Sympathies The master will be here presently, said the matronly looking dame, in a combined tone and manner which may fairly be described as pleasant in the extreme. Sit ye down, my lad. Obeying the instructions with an abrupt movement, Puffy Doddles dropped upon the surface of a chair, and being forth with left alone in the apartment into which he had been ushered, began to while away the moments as they flew by, surveying some of the contents therein. 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.