Excerpt from Cecil Aldin's Merry Party: Containing an Account of Forager's Hunt Breakfast, Rags' Garden Party, Master Quack's Water Picnic, Tabitha's Tea Party, Peter's Dinner Party, and Humpty and Dumpty's Fancy Dress BallThe hunting season had begun, o and the days were bright and clear, 0 when Forager said, Let's have some fun 0 that will suit this time Of the year. 0 A jolly Hunt Breakfast to all my friends 0 is the sort Of affair I propose. O A gentleman never cares what he spends 0 on big entertainments like those. 0 Now, sometimes people don't want to eat, 0 they are not hungry, indeed, o if they get their breakfast before the Meet. 0 To see them.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.