Excerpt from The Focus, Vol. 4: January, 1915 Once last summer, I attempted to please the whole family, and faild. I'd been on a vacation, and when I came back I brot presents for everybody. Ted was furius because what I brot him happend to be an apt reminder of a joke the felloes had on him Fourteen-year old Juliet was so insulted that she wouldn't speak to me for a week after she opend the box with the big dol in it. Mary made mother a present of the steel gray silk I brot her; father openly told me that he could manage to walk a few years longer without a cane, and, as I liv, my mother gave away that beautiful white parasol to a niece of hers. N ow, what was the matter with the parasol? Clerk at the store said it was all right for a lady in second mourning. 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.