Excerpt from What I Did With My Fifty Millions It seems that the old man ("Mozis") did really believe that he possessed an enormous sum of money - the internal evidence leaves no doubt whatever on this point - and he must have passed many sleepless nights in imagining what he did with it. He seems, too, to have labored under the additional delusion that he had been for a very long time "cooped up," as he expresses it, in editorial sanctums and libraries, whereas it is well known that his actual business was that of a hoop-pole splitter in the barrel factory of the Columbian Mills. But this confinement appears to have disagreed with him, and may have led to the mental torsion that gave birth to the strange production now published. Hence the passionate outburst of affection for his foster-mother, Nature, which would be almost ludicrous did we not remember how the simple old soul must have pined for the free life in the woods, to which, as a mauler of rails for Col. Hubard, of Buckingham, he had been accustomed from his very boyhood. The date "1890" in the first foot-note indicates that the article, written at some uncertain period, was afterwards revised and annotated at intervals, as the old man's strength enabled him to indulge in literary occupations - probably after nightfall, his only leisure time. 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.