Excerpt from The Little Gypsy This tailor had a wife. Neat, active, industri ous, and obliging, Marguerite had many excellent qualities; but, as Wolf sometimes said laugh ingly, the baker had put too much yeast in the bread. It must be confessed, that if Marguerite was warm-hearted, she was also hot-headed. She sighed for rank, riches, and pleasure; and annoyed with her silly complaints the worthy Wolf, whose ambition never soared beyond the limits of his mountains. But, in Spite of her faults, Marguerite was the best wife in the world; and, when she was loving and gay, Wolf quickly forgot her weaknesses of character. 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.