Excerpt from The History of Sandford and Merton: Intended for the Use of Children Description of Harry Sandford and Tommy Merton - Adventure with the Snake - Harryin Mr Merton's house - Mr Barlow undertakes the education of Tommy - The first day at Mr Barlow's - Story of the Flies and the Ants - Harry rescues a Chicken from a Kite Story of the Gentleman and the Basket-maker - Tommy learns to read - Story of the two dogs. 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.