Excerpt from A Museum of Wonders, and What the Young Folks Saw There: Explained in Many PicturesAnd the tiny cottage in the snows, Girt by the mountains on either hand, Where summer kindled the Alpine rose. And the lean man, with the drum, Thought of a day that was gone When war's wild call beat through the land, And he saw his friends fall on either hand, And he was left alone. But the comet man blew loud and fast; he had no sorrow in his past.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.