Book excerpt: Excerpt from Merry's Museum, Parley's Magazine, Woodworth's Cabinet and the Schoolfellow, 1866, Vol. 22 Thinking of the cap and sandals, and what with them I should learn. Soon I knew his heavy breathing left me master of the hour Donning cap and flying sandals, how I blessed the god-sent power, As with lightning speed I hurried where my thoughts had been before, And, invisible, alighted at each distant Merry's door! 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.