Excerpt from The Master: Being in Part Copied From the Minutes of the School for Novelists, a Round Table of Good Fellows Who, Long, Since, Dined Every Saturday at the Sign O' the Lanthorne, on Golden Hill, in New York City The few who may have read my first and least known tale, The Master of Silence, will recognize herein one of its incidents and a trait of its leading character. I have dared to hope that the reader would find amusement and something better in these singular adventures and observations of The Pippin. 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.