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Excerpt from The Owl's Nest: A Vacation Among Isms Behind us at a respectful distance, her capable black arms rolled in her blue-checked apron, dallied Chrysoprase, for twenty years as much a fixture in the family as the ma bogany sideboard, and far more indispensable. We could hear her occasional ejaculation, Lor', ain't it beautiful! 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.