Excerpt from Tracks From the Trips of a Traveling Man I have no excuses to offer for this book, else it never would have appeared. The Tracks have been written in hotels, stores, rail way trains and depots, driving on the highway, or wherever and whenever a thought came to me that is made use of. No part of it has been rewritten nor revised, as the life of a business man permits of doing a thing but once, whether done well or ill. The Personal Poems, in Part Second, will be of little or no interest to the general public; in fact they will likely seem too simple to publish. I will only say that my original intention was to publish this book for private distribution to my immediate friends only, and it is at their request that I add the Personal Poems. As the immortal Lincoln once said: -f or any one who likes just this kind of a book, this is just the kind of a book they will like. 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.