Excerpt from Interventions Benny summons had spent most of the night in going up and down stairs with a broken-lipped pitcher, which, however often he took it down empty, must once more be brought up full. Even an empty two-quart pitcher is a table burden for one of Benny's stature, but when full the process of bringing it successfully to port, up five flights of stairs, is a matter to require the closest navigation. If the ascent is hastened by impatient calls from the top, there is danger of catastrophe, complete and terrific. When this at last happened, Benny, staying for court of inquiry to take up the matter, fled at once, crept under a bench in a moth-eaten bit of park near by, and there remained until morning, within the black shadow cast by the electric light. 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 techlogy 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.