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Excerpt from The Bad Family: And Other Stories Menu of Good Manners, Mora/r, ana Humanity. It is from the last-named book that the first ten of the follow ing stories have been taken. It was a favourite work in its day, and not only was it often reprinted in Eng land, but was translated into French for little French children, it seems, need lessons too. 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.