Excerpt from Notes of the Night: And Other Outdoor SketchesTrust the following pages need no explana tion, and the necessity of a preface would be done away with, much to the author's relief, were it not that here, if anywhere, acknowledgments may be made. Three of the following essays have appeared in spz'nm¿'s Magazine, and are here reproduced by kind permission of the pub lishers of that periodical. Here and there through out the volume are paragraphs that have seen the light before, but these preliminary items were but the nuclei about which have since clustered what I hope will prove to be profitable re¿ections readably 'expressed. C. C. A. Trenton, N. J., April 12, 1896.filaments.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.