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Excerpt from At the Sign of the Silver Crescent The speaker was a young man of six or seven and twenty the listener a well-bred fox terrier, named for Paderewski, partly because his hair was very short, but chiefly because his master owed a debt of gratitude to the great pianist for the pleasure that he had received at his hands (literally), and paid a part of it in thus showing his appreciation. 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.