Excerpt from Vernon's Aunt: Being the Oriental Experiences of Miss. Lavinia Moffat I had always seen a good deal of my nephew Vernon. I used to brush his hair when he wore it in curls, and endeavour to see that he was respectable when he went to Church. At an early stage I became associated in his acquisitive young mind with tops and knives and marbles and unexpected pieces of. 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.