Excerpt from One Against the World, Vol. 1 of 3: Or Reuben's War "Ay, ay, Molly, that will do, my beauty!" said the gigantic landlord, as he stood for a moment with his head almost touching the low ceiling of the principal room of "The Traveller's Joy;" and then dropped, with an awful shaking of the foundations of the house, into his wooden chair, with its old-fashioned projecting sides and high back sloping away at an acute angle. "Yes, Molly, that will do. Now give me the footstool. Eight, right. Now for the pipe, my lass, now for the pipe." 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.