Excerpt from Second Thoughts, Vol. 1 of 2 If you clear them all, ' cries Jane, in a high bustling voice of excited explanation to an alien young man - Jane, whose own length of adolescent leg fits her for a nobler stride if you clear them all, you will be lucky all the year; if you put out any one, you will be unlucky in that month of the year to which it corresponds: if you put out the first, you will be unlucky in January, the second in February, and so on.' 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.