Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lantern, Vol. 15: November, 1935 A tall girl of twelve was the ring - leader. Her name was Jennifer; she had unruly long hair, which was always unkempt, and inquisitive blue eyes which had a proud and self - conscious glint. She was an unpleasantly independent creature, with all the obnoxious egoti'sm of her twelve years. 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.