Excerpt from Jay Gould or His Double: An Episode From Dreamland Brand me a foamy bubbler with a fiesmy brain, and fling at me your galling gibes from afar and near - for such I fear my only meed will be for this uncouth creation but, forbear, I pray you, and don't stamp what here you read: a ghastly joke concocted purely for an evil purpose. For, notwithstanding its apparent barrenness of sense, it is nevertheless penned in good faith, and not polluted with motives of sinister origin. 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.