Excerpt from Punch, 1888, Vol. 94 The dickens it is! Find it cheer your course, and solace your solitude? On the contrary! Cried Father Tasman, with emphasis. Fancied it might be nice reading for bad weather, when my patriotic heart aches, and there are no pretty girls about to turn the dull pain into a pleasing flutter. But, as far as I can make out, there' a neither point nor patriotism in it, and I 'd put it aside for pipe-lights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.