Excerpt from The Blot on the Queen's Head: How Little Ben, the Head Waiter, Changed the Sign of the Queen's Inn, Hotel Limited, and the Consequences Thereof Nothing was more extraordinary than the way in which this inn had gone on extending. It was next door to the Frogs and Lilies, and for some time, long ago, actually took up a good part of that' inn and worked its business. Then it withdrew from that, and later on took up houses here and there for its increasing crowds. Of guests. It made provision for every colour and every kind of people. Thus at the time of which we are writing it was a great overgrown caravansary, spreading all over the place. The rival inns used to laugh at it. They also used to sneer. They said that such a huge and varied business must become unmanageable, and would some day go to pieces. 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.