Excerpt from The Autobiography of a Beggar, Prefaced by Some of the Humorous Adventures Incidents Related in the Beggars Club The Beggars' Club, as the astute reader may have guessed without the reading of a line, does not lay any particular stress on wealth among its conditions for member ship; but he may not have surmised that the club was founded for social purposes only by men of wit, or, to be more exact, by men who live by their wits; for while the two often go together they are more often found apart. The Beggars' Club is just what the name signifies, a club for those who live to beg and who beg to live. To become a member of it a millionaire would have to give his fortune to charity and then appeal to charity to get a modicum of his millions back. 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.