Excerpt from The Strange Friend of Tito Gil At the time our story opens, he was about nineteen years of age; the son, nephew, grand-nephew, cousin and Heaven knows what more, to the best of the old Court shoemakers. 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.

Tito Gil was a poor boy, tall, thin and sallow, with great black eyes, and a frank, open face; badly dressed and awkward, but possessed of a bright happy disposition. At the time our story opens, he was about nineteen years of age; the son, nephew, grand-nephew, cousin and Heaven knows what more, to the best of the old Court shoemakers. His mother, Crispina Lopez, died in giving him birth, and her husband, Juan Gil, did not regard the child with much affection until he learned that he might be left a widower, from which it may be inferred that the poor shoemaker and Crispina Lopez were an example of brief but bad marriages.

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CONTENTS.--[v. 1] no. 1. The letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel, announcing his discovery, with extracts from his journal.--no. 2. The Ostend manifesto, 1854.--no. 3. Extracts from the sagas describing the voyages to Vinland.--no. 4 double Extracts from official declarations of the United States embodying the Monroe doctrine, 1789-1891.--no. 5. Extracts from the Treaty of Paris of 1763.--no. 6. Extracts from official papers relating to the Bering Sea controversy, 1790-1892.--no. 7. The Articles of confederation of the United Colonies of New England, 1643-1684.--no. 8. Exact text of the Constitution of the United States.--no. 9. Documents describing the voyage of John Cabot in 1497.--no. 10. Governor McDuffie's message on the slavery question, 1835.--no. 11 double Jefferson's proposed instructions to the Virginia delegates, 1774, and the original draft of the Declaration of independence, 1776.--no. 12. Ordinances of secession and other documents, 1860-1861.