Excerpt from One of the Thirty: A Strange HistoryHow the following account, which deals wholly of London, came into my hand, I shall not impart. But I begin my singular (and singularly romantic) true narrative with a description of occurrences - domestic occurrences - contemporaneous with all the people and the facts and forms which are about us now, at this moment, in London. Therefore the reader must not be astonished if I speedily relate some very surprising and bewildering circumstances. Mine is surely a most un common relation of facts, and one very difficult to reconcile with everyday truth. Believed or not believed, however, this is the record of real events occurring in this familiar London of ours in the summer of 1871. For we have in this town of our daily life not quite got rid yet of wonderful things, simple as we think our selves, and very ordinary and commonplace as we con sider not only the affairs which happen every day about us, but also the people that, in our Walks abroad, we are constantly meeting. In truth, we are very ignorant, and we are sadly disposed to disregard things that concern us very nearly. But if our guides are blind, is it surprising that we are blindly led, embracing posts as pillars of truth occasionally, not thinking that the index-finger is of wood?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.