Excerpt from The Autobiography of Flora M'donald, Vol. 2 of 2: Being the Home Life of a Heroine Now, to explain this, I mull tell you, Maggie, I had obtained leave to have the comfort of a bedftead, fmall as it was, in my cabin for being fo long a time in the fliip, it would have greatly added to my difcomfort to have been obliged to ufe the narrow bed ding, mounted on a kind of flielf, which was called a berth, for a continuance. So I boldly afked for a proper bed, and got it. But for this, Lady Mary would certainly not have been able to obtain her with. Oh, how I laughed at fuch nonfenfe! Yet this aet was trifling to the flattering notice I received at a later period. 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.