Excerpt from Jay Gould or His Double: An Episode From Dreamland<br><br>Brand me a foamy bubbler with a fiesmy brain, and fling at me your galling gibes from afar and near - for such I fear my only meed will be for this uncouth creation but, forbear, I pray you, and don't stamp what here you read: a ghastly joke concocted purely for an evil purpose. For, notwithstanding its apparent barrenness of sense, it is nevertheless penned in good faith, and not polluted with motives of sinister origin.<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.