Excerpt from An Elementary Spanish Reader The advantage of being able to take up as soon as possible a connected text, brings the short story into notable prominence. Complete in itself, and not so long as to become wearisome to the student who reads only a few pages each week in the classroom, yet long enough to give him a chance to become interested before he is obliged to pass on to something else, it becomes, if easy and entertaining, the perfection of reading for the beginner who has mastered the first rudi ments of the language. 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.