Excerpt from When You Were a Boy Spunk carey old straw? Fat Day, you recollect, had a cap upon the front of which was lettered his rank Captain It seems as though mother made you a cap, as well as the striped trousers and breastplate. The cap was furnished with a tremendously deep Vizor of pasteboard, and was formed of four segments, two white and two blue, meetmg ln the center of the crown. 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.