Excerpt from The Haunted Pajamas It was the first thing I saw that night as I swung into my chambers. Fact is, for the moment, it was the only thing I saw. Somehow, its splash of yellow there under the shaded lamp seemed to catch my eye and hold it. I screwed my glass tight and examined the thing with interest. Nothing remarkable; just a tiny, ob long package, bearing curious foreign markings, its wrapper plainly addressed to me, but - "By Jove! From China!" I ejaculated. Somebody in far-off China sending me a present, with duties and charges prepaid evidently. What the deuce was it? I shook it without get ting any revelation; then I weighed it in my hand. The thing was devilish light! In fact, so light that, allowing for outside wrapper and box, dashed if I could see how there was anything at all. 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.