Excerpt from A Pirate of Parts On the Rialto Handy picked up seven good men and true, who, like himself, had many a time and oft fretted their brief hour upon the stage and possibly will again, - who were willing to em bark their fame and fortune in the venture. They knew Handy was a sailor hold, and so long as they had an angel in the shape of a vessel to per form the transportation part of the scheme with out being compelled to count railroad ties, in case of ill luck, sailing was good enough for them. Besides, time was no object, for they had plenty of it to spare. They were all actors like Handy himself. The stories they could unfold of barn-storming in coun try towns in years gone by would fill a volume as bulky as a census report. Moreover, they could turn their talents to any line of business and dou ble, treble, quintuple parts as easily as talk. They were players of the old stock school. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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