Excerpt from The Devil's Hat: A Sketch in Oil To be sure, much, if not all, depends upon the manner in which a story is told. I am not un mindful of this - of art - but then I do not profess equality with those professional writers, who, I sometimes fancy, attain from long practice with the pen to such a degree of dexterity in its use that they handle it as surely and gracefully as they do their forks. Indeed it is interesting to note the intimate relations which exist between the two instruments. 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.