Excerpt from Twenty Years in a Newspaper Office I have amused myself by occasionally substituting rhyme for reason, and I hope that the good Lord will help those who are innocently led into reading these effusions, through curiosity or otherwise, to find it in their hearts to afterwards kindly forgive the enormity of my indiscretions in that line. If no other purpose is served, the writing of these pages has been a pleasant diversion to me. 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.