Excerpt from Philopolis, 1906, Vol. 1 At the end of the troubled days, when business and the affairs of the household were tumbled together, and the tools of the trade became altogether too familiar with those of the dining table when in reality the office was separated\ from the drawing-room by the webs of fancy only, and we were not under obligations to brave the wind and dust of the streets except to sit in the bread-line or do the cooking, we formed the habit of strolling about the town during the early hours of the evening. While these excursions were partly induced by the desire to stretch our limbs, there was really nothing to do but walk aimlessly around the streets, or join some group and listen to the tales of the seven lost trunks. 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.