Excerpt from Many Happy Returns of the Day! President; but even at that I get a certain amount of cheer out of it, as I shall explain later. There was a time when my birth day was a mighty important event. For twelve months you might wake me up any night and ask me how old Iwas and I would say, Eight, going on nine, ' and the moment I opened my eyes on December 5th I was nine, going on ten, ' and the most important job I had was to look forward to the next birthday, when I would be ten, going on eleven.' 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.