Excerpt from Bits of Verse and Prose<br><br>There was a what-not in that little parlor, and there, on one Christmas day, she put her only gift, a highly colored candy rooster. She could not sleep that night for wondering if the candy rooster would still be there in the morning. Every day she would steal into the room to fondle the bit of brightly painted sugar, and would allow herself only the privilege of sucking just a wee taste ofi the base. But one awful day a little boy named Joe slipped into the parlor unseen, and there he found the candy rooster and heartlessly devoured it.<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.