Excerpt from The Book of Nonsense, to Which Is Added More Nonsense: With All the Original Pictures and Verses In offering this little Book to the Public, I am glad to take the opportunity of recording the pleas ure I have received at the appreciation its prede cessor has met with, as attested by its wide circula tion, and by the universally kind notices of it from the Press. To have been the means of administer ing innocent mirth to thousands, may surely be a just motive for satisfaction, and an excuse for grate ful expression. 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.