Excerpt from What Happened to Me Running his hand down into his breeches pocket he pulled out his rattlesnake-skin bag, filled with charms against hoodoos en cun jers, and selected from the gruesomeness a blood-stained rabbit's foot and, lifting my little clenched fingers one by one, he closed them around it. Thus, perhaps, he saved me from that most loathsome fault, stinginess, and insured for me, even though the talisman was of a Chuesday's killing, sprinting over a woman's instead of a man's briar - grown home, at least a minimum amount of good luck. 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.