Excerpt from The Odd-Fellows' Offering, for 1847 IT is now five years since the odd-fellows' Offer ing first appeared. During that time, it has found its way into the families of the Brotherhood in every section of the Union, and also into Canada; young and old, grave and gay, friend and foe to the principles it illustrates, have perused its pages and we are so vain as to believe, that, if those pages have effected no good, they have at least done no harm. 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.