Excerpt from Historical AddressesOnce upon a time, there lived in the city called the Forest, a young man familiarly called Tom, who like almost every body else wanted. Money, and cast about how to raise it. He wanted this money to build a railroad to Somebody's Land, as he had heard that railroads paid. So considering it a laudable enterprise, he concluded to call upon his uncle whom he familiarly called Governor, for a loan of, as he expressed it, the insignificant sum of seven hundred thousand dollars which amount would enable him to build an iron highway through Sleepy Hollow, Poet's Delight and other equally, or almost equally important places, to somebodys land.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.