The Rifleman: Or Adventures of Percy Blake

Excerpt from The Rifleman: Or Adventures of Percy BlakeIT is customary, 1 believe, with authors who have but little to relate, to press into their service every possible resource of the literary art that, by the charm of their eloquence, they may hide the paucity of their material. The contrary, however, being my case I trust the reader will be content to receive a plain, unvarnished tale of military life, instead of a flowing dissertation de omnibus rebus, which I have neither ability nor inclination to cook up for his amusement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.