Excerpt from The Surgeon's Stories: A Series of Swedish Historical Romances, in Six Cycles The summer passed. When the end Of August drew near, and Back, as usual, was invited to dine on his own pike, little Jonathan came one day, with rather an important air, and handed him a branch, on which were three large dark-red raspberries. Well said the Surgeon, and, as was his wont, lifted the little fellow up by his collar, about as one lifts a kitten. Yes, godfather, answered Jonathan briskly, now the raspberries are ripe in the woods. 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.