Excerpt from Jake And these things were part of Jake. These things are with me still. Not that Jake haunts me in the ordinary sense of the word. His spirit was too gentle, too unassuming, too thoughtful of others to do anything so positive as to haunt one. He would, I think, be genuinely sorry that I remem ber aught of him but the sense of comradeship, the many pleasant hours we had together in the days when we were both young enough so that the mere surface of life, the being alive and well on a sunny day, the reading of a good yarn or the sight of the delectable knees of musical comedy were enough to make us forget the tragic frame of life. 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.