Excerpt from Abou Hassan, the Wag, or the Sleeper Awakened: An Extravaganza Mother Mina. Down to one dish at last Not a thing else to put on Yon ancestral table but cold milk and mutton. Down to one meal a day, and that scarce worth the tasting; After years of fast living 'tis hard to live fasting. Here comes Abou, my step-son - ah me, how much thinner Let us trust he's already had something for dinner. Ten days in succession he's been out to borrow Small sums of his friends: nary red, to our sorrow Every night he returns with the same look of horror, And the same silly speech, Better luck, Ma, to-morrow. 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.