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Excerpt from Drum's House Tn main action of this story lies in Bandyshire. That there may be no real pseudonymity in connec tion with a highly respectable county, I may remark that what we call Prut is grown there, Bangs are made there, and the Bandy men whistle out of tune and walk with their hands in their pockets. Prut is the soft, not the stone, variety: gooses, straws Early Emma's rasps and camts. Bandy shire bangs are those cheeses peculiar to the county they are made by frugal souls of separated milk, and are, in consequence, so hard that we Of Bandy say, Dogs'll bark at' em, pigs'll grunt at' em, but they can't bite 'em. 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.