Excerpt from Dr. Valentine and Yankee Hill's Metamorphoses: Being the Second Series of Dr. Valentine's Comic Lectures, With Characters as Given by the Late Yankee Hill<br><br>Some people, from peculiarity of constitution, always laugh. Others, from the same sense, are always crying and growling and others, again, are laughing and drying almost at the same instant. Mr. Honey-face, a friend of mine, always laughs, always eats well, drinks well, sleeps well, and always ready to enjoy a good joke.<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.