Download or read book The Musings of Uncle Silas (Classic Reprint) written by Bascom Byron Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Musings of Uncle Silas All little books with big circulations, pertaining to health, begin their enacting clauses by having a Zodiacal chart, well to the front, showing a man divested of all metallic substances, and whose front ranks are not properly clothed. Owing to the modesty of the author, our artist has, by aid of a belt punch and leather lace, left only the scars. This is the key to the sit uation. Profane history tells us that Doc tor Franklin got this idea of illustrating an almanac, but, on account of the ex treme sensitiveness of his set in Boston, published it under the alias of Poor Rich ard. Dr. Franklin organized this meung erie in early life, and the author is the first man, using his stage settings, to change the style of trade-mark. The sug gestion forced itself upon me, after a brief visit to the British Museum, where I found too many people hewn out of stone who appeared in even more destitute circum stances. 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.