Excerpt from In No-Man's Land: A Wonder Story Slowly the horse-car toiled up the sunny street. The day was hot, and so were the horses. So, too, were the drowsy conductor on the rear platform, and the perspiring driver in front, while within the car, cuddled all up in a little heap, rode the only passenger - just one hot, tired, sleepy little girl - Ruthie. 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.