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Excerpt from In Gipsy Tents For introduction I was writing a cartel of defiance, when my adversary kindly cut his throat, and by an odd coincidence I was summoned to sit upon his remains. Requiescat in pace - henceforth he may lie in peace, inasmuch as it boots not to measure weapons with a suicide. Speaking though of boots, there was once a Parisian shoeblack who trained his dog to dirty the clean boots of passers-by. 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.