Excerpt from The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches And that is Why for so long We obeyed the command of the grownups and never Walked as far as the forbidden Reservoir, but were content to return tired but happy (as We wrote in our school compositions), answering thequestion, Where did you walk today? With a suspicion of blackmail, Oh, nearly, nearly to the Reservoir! 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.