Excerpt from A Book About Dominies: Being the Reflections and Recollections of a Member of the ProfessionI don't choose to let the public too far behind my scenes, but if any curious spectator should look through the curtain, and have a peep at me trying on my cocked hat and feathers, he must not go away with the idea that I am a conceited individual in private life. As for the story that the appear ance of this edition has been delayed by my printer's running short of capital 1's, it is a pure fabrication.I wish to take this opportunity of answering cer tain objections which have been made to this book. For instance, a friend of mine, who did not know that he was speaking to its author, informed me that it contained a great deal of very silly nonsense not at all necessary to the subject. But this gentle man did not remember, to fulfil its purpose, my book should be read by other and less hard-headed people than dominies, and that these people might be tickled into agreement with my views by the very passages stigmatized by him as silly.' I have been accused, too, of being a very old-fashioned dominie, and of making little mention of a large and in¿uential class of schoolmasters of another type, to which I would answer, that my book was about real dominies, and not about the clerical or other amateurs who, in certain parts of the country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.