📗 Excerpt from Le Grand-Père Et Ses Quatre Petits-Fils: Livre de Lecture, à l'Usage des ÉcolesAt another time, the means of restoring a person rendered 'lethargic by cold, and again one who has been poisoned, are given in so life-like a manner, and so connected with an interesting story, as to render it impossible to forget them.A chimney catches fire, and, while the Old domestic is nearly distracted, the grandfather takes the most prudent measures for extinguishing the ñames.The superstition of Margaret, and her vulgar notions, fur nish constant opportunity to the grandfather to explain super natural events by natural causes, and to correct many erroneous popular ideas, which, it is probably known, are more common in France than in our own country.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.