Perils of Josephine (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Perils of Josephine Three dull maids sat in a dull room, in the dull, dull town of Chelmsford. Two of these maids were old, and one young. For ten long grey years had these three lived together in that same little house, and during all these years there had happened nothing - absolutely nothing - that would in the very least degree repay recording. Twice in every week the coaches to and from London would rattle past the windows with a great to-do, the guard tooting on his long polished horn, and the driver cutting strange patterns in the air with his whip. And twice in every day, with the first clatter of hoofs on the bald cobbles, would the three of us rush to the window and flatten our noses against the glass, and this without fail and with a zest that never waned. Now and again the great coach would race past with double clatter and double speed; and when that was so, it was as sure as anything could be that it was not the red-faced driver that was on the box, but some dandy buck, with broad-brimmed beaver, and big white buttons staring from his coat like eyes. 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.