Excerpt from The Hound of Ireland: And Other Stories He looked around the little tobacconist's shop with a smile, as a king might look at a disguise he was about to leave off. And he patted the great grey wolfhound by his side, that would have been more at home in the hall of some princely castle than in a little store of New Rochelle. 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.