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Excerpt from Squints Through an Opera Glass The old gentleman himself evidently enjoys to the full capa city of his nature the ottum cum dignitate of his wealth and position. But a few years ago. This liberal, enlightened, and worthy citizen was a small dealer in dead hogs, which he used to buy1n the carcass and cut up at his own door, while his prudent helpmeet was carrying on a cheap boarding house up stairs. By prudence, industry, and economy, the gains of pork and sausages accumu lated year by year, until the huxter became the wholesale dealer and adventurous speculator while the boarding-house expanded into the aristocratic mansion above Bleecker, the daughters ex changed the rolling-pin for the piano, and magnificent weekly entertainments almost made the whole family forget that all their greatness is derived from a long line of illustrious dead - hogs. 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.