Excerpt from The Working-Man's Way in the World: Being the Autobiography of a Journeyman Printer The time has been when an apology would have been thought necessary for obtruding on the notice of the public these passages in the life of a Working Man: that time is, however, past, and there are now an abundance of precedents to keep any man in countenance who, for reasons good, bad, or indifferent, may choose to draw aside the veil from his personal history, and publish it to the world. My own reasons for so doing the reader will find out in the course of the following pages, if he think it worth his while to peruse them; and therefore I need not state them here. Neither shall I endeavor to secure his favorable opinion by palliating my own blunders. Like poor Goldsmith, I know "there are a hundred faults in this thing" - but, unlike him, I do not know that anything could be said to prove them beauties. 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.