Excerpt from Midsummer Medley for 1830, Vol. 2 of 2: A Series of Comic Tales, Sketches, and Fugitive Vagaries, in Prose and Verse Immediate ocular proof Of the apparition recorded. Whether this second introduction of the same character may be justly deemed a plagiarism, I leave to the critics to deter mine; though the writer must add in vindi cation, that whatever may have been his thefts from others, he is the last man who would think of stealing from himself, - a spe cies Of pilfering which he would consider somewhat equivalent to that Of robbing. 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.