Excerpt from The Wet Parade The visitor from the North sat and fanned herself vigorously with a palm-leaf fan; she was not used to such temperatures, even in midsummer. But Mama did not mind it, having lived here all her forty-odd years; she was stout and placid, and sat and rocked Slowly, with perspiration running in streams down her pink and white cheeks. She knew it was good for you to be bathed in per spiration, provided you bathed in water morning and evening, and used talcum powder meantime, and put on fresh linen. She ex plained this to the anxious stranger, and added, apologetically, We cannot open the doors just now, because there is a snake in the house. 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.