Excerpt from Selected Stories I very much regret the publication, in book form, of a number of sketches which I recently wrote for a newspaper syndicate. The sketches were never in tended to be compiled into a book, and I do not regard them as a fair selection. They were not submitted to me for revision, but were hastily slammed together by an Eastern publisher and thrown out for sale. This collection of stories and sketches, brought out by my regular publishers, has been carefully made, and I hope that it may find favor with the public. 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.