Excerpt from The Flail: Book One, the Bells, 1894 to 1900For more than a year, with increasing frequency, he had been taking small sums from the tureen. At first, only a penny or two at a time. At length, a nickel. Once or twice, a dime. And now sixteen cents. He had always made it a rule never to go near the temming dish without first asking if he might have a penny, or without being commissioned to take so and so much for some family purchase at the butcher's or grocer's. He had always been very cau tious about his thefts, taking no more than he thought would go undetected.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.