Excerpt from The New Year's Gift, and Juvenile Souvenir Well, as Mister Chump is taking his forty winks, and Mistress is up stairs dressing for the afternoon, and as the weather is fine, and I have nothing to do, I shall take my daily lounge at the door, and indulge myself with a look up and down the street. It is my custom in the afternoon: except indeed when the rain beats in at the door, and renders me uncomfortable in my own feelings, and my dear Mistress intolerant of my wet coat com'mg in contact with her beautiful bright steel lender and fire-irons. Save when I am guilty of this little inadvertency, I never know her to be angry with her 'old friend and shop-keeper, Chumpy. 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.