Excerpt from Alarums and Excursions As the original editions of Poems in Divers Keys and Joe Skinner are now exhausted, I have made a selection here of some of those poems which appeared in the first volume. Joe Skinner reappears in extema. On a previous occasion I expressed my acknow ledgments to the proprietors and editors of those papers by whose courtesy I was permitted to re publish several of the shorter pieces. The present volume contains considerable matter now published for the first time, including Fudge and Mukerji Lal, both in a light vein. 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.