Excerpt from Sketches I have scattered through this volume a mass of matter which has never been in print before, (such as Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls, the Jumping Frog restored to the English tongue after martyrdom in the French, the Membranous Croup sketch, and many others which I need not specify): not doing this in order to make an adver tisement of it, but because these things seemed. 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.