Excerpt from Soldiering and Scribbling: A Series of Sketches<br><br>Tm: papers which make up this little volume are, without exception, reprints. Some were origi nally contributed to the Starlight column of the now defunct Evening Star; others appeared in St. Paul's, the Daily Nam, the London Scotsman gone dead like the Slar - the Observer, the Sunday Magazine, and Belgram'a. To the pro prietors of the living among the journals and periodi cals named, I desire to make my acknowledgments for the permission accorded me to reprint. Whether the reader may or may not consider that a refusal on their parts of this permission would not have been true kindness, is a question on which I do not presume to advance an opinion. It may be necessary to state that, where the first person singular is used, it by no means follows that I am narrating my own experiences; but that the I was adopted for the sake of greater directness, and in.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.