Excerpt from Fun-Jottings: Or, Laughs I Have Taken a Pen ToWE do not expect the world to receive our smiles with the instant sympathy and trust which we expect for our tears. A smile may pardonably be thought a caprice of one's own. We write, therefore, with correspondent carelessness or digressiveness, upon incidents that, in passing, have merely amused us - quite prepared to find that they are not so amusing (at second-hand) to others.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.