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Excerpt from Show Life Illustrated: Its Humors, Adventure and RomanceAfter supper I went to the barber's for a shave. In front of me, beside the mirror, was a roughly con structed frame for holding in place the razors of the bar ber. I counted the number of places intended for the razors to rest in, and without thought, remarked aloud: Eight razors The barber gave a start, which cut my face, and I noticed that his hand trembled violently. A terrible and startling suspicion ¿ashed upon me. Why his perturbation? I looked - there was six razors in the frame and one in his hand. Where was the eighth razor A clammy sweat oozed through my pores. Did he read my thoughts? He might cut my throat!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.