Excerpt from The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis, Vol. 2 of 2: With Many Pieces in Prose and Verse, Never Before Published The subject of the canister was not suffered to drop, but in the course of the evening, pro duced the following. The thing of shreds and patches, from which we copy it, hardly permits us to give it correctly. 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.