Excerpt from The Tangletown Letters, Being the Reminiscences, Observations, and Opinions of Timotheus Trap, Esq. 1856: Including a Report of the Great Mammothic Reform ConventionAs you have journeyed with a higher purpose than mere amusement, so I have written feeling that the writer, like the traveller, is responsible for his Opportunities.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.