Excerpt from Little People It is like Freemasonry in its kind of power, while far exceeding it in the degree. A Lord Mayor on the Bench was once driven to remark with some severity that he could take no notice of the sign when it came from brother Masons in the dock. This irregularity, of course, was no impeachment of the morals of the Order at large. It meant no more than that, when Freemasonry happened to include the sinner as well as the saint, the sinner should play fair. Now Little Peopledom has a still wider embrace: it is only less of a general characteristic than the nose on your face, and only less variously inclusive than the order of the mammalia. 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.