Excerpt from Au Soleil, or African Wanderings, Vol. 12: La Vie Errante, or in Vagabondia There is a father, a mother, and four children. About three years ago the grandmother was with them she is not there now. The father has changed very much since we became neighbors. He does not notice it, but seems content, even happy - the idiot They speak of a wedding, then of a death, then of the tender chicken they are eating, of the maid, who is dishonest. They trouble themselves about a hun dred things, utterly useless and silly, - fools 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.