Excerpt from Fiddler's Luck: The Gay Adventures of a Musical Amateur A few paragraphs near the beginning were borrowed from my book, The M usical Amateur, and shattered to bits, and then remoulded nearer to the heart's desire. Chapter XIII originally appeared in the Outlook, and eleven of the remaining nineteen chapters, in the Atlantic Monthly, but in forms which detached them from the main current Of this story, and made them self-supporting and able to fend for themselves in a cold, hard world, as yet unaware of their future context. 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.