Excerpt from Fables of the Hotel Profession and Poems of Good Cheer Most cheerfully I concede to Mr. George Ade all credit as the originator of the Modern Fable, but I plead not guilty to any charge of unconscious assimilation, for the pencil sketches in this volume are from a little individual world whose inner work ings are far removed from the ordinary walks of life. The intricate human machinery of the hotel business has fashioned a community of its own and, as such, evolves many a character and many a situa tion unique unto its environments. 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.