My Pets (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from My Pets<br><br>The Prodigal Returns; Alexis Finds Scope For His Military Proclivities At Last; Maquet Buys A Second Husband For Mademoiselle Desgarcins; Mademoiselle Desgarcins And The Soda-Water Bottle; Infamous Conduct Of Potich, The "Last Of The Laidmanoirs," Mademoiselle Desgarcins, And Mysouff II; A Wager; Trial And Condemnation Of Mysouff; Don Rusconi; In Which Mouton Betrays His Odious Character; The Greatest Autograph-Hunter In Paris; My First Hare; Alfred And Mdor; How Alfred Was Obliged To Return To Compigne In Highland Costume; How I Brought Back From Constantine A Vulture Which Cost Me Forty Thousand Francs - And The Government Ten Thousand; How Pritchard Began To Resemble The Marchal De Saxe, To Whom Mars Had Left Nothing But A Loving Heart; Which Deals With My Dbut As An Orator In The Department Of The Yonne, And Pritchard's Dbut In The Same Department As A Poacher; An Impeccable Magistrate; Discussing The Erudite Question: Was It The Toad Taught The Doctors To Be Accoucheurs, Or The Doctors Taught The Toads; In Which Pritchard Has The Calamity To Encounter A Canon Fulbert Without Having Met A Hlose<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.