Excerpt from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Vol. 7: January-June, 1847 What do you mean to do, then, to increase the sum? Do you mean to make another bet with yourself?' No, no; that is well enough in its way when there is nothing else to be done; but I have now got a capital to begin the day with. There are worse dodges than picking up stones but it is not respectable. I will turn these browns, master, into a white shilling before long, if I once make up my mind what lay to go upon.' 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.