Excerpt from Goblin, Vol. 9: December, 1928 H i s c h i e f handicap in life has been the stupidity of his fellows and he is beginning to doubt now if he can do anything about it. He is well acquainted with Mr. Mackenzie King and Mr. Howard Ferguson but is not sending a Christmas present to either of them. For a clever man with a hard mind he is surprisingly susceptible to flattery if it be rhetorical enough. He believes that the most inter esting thing in life is his family except during a general election. 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.