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Excerpt from Notes From the Life of an Ordinary Mortal: Being a Record of Things Done, Seen and Heard at School, College, and in the World During the Latter Half of the 19th Century Many persons will think that a record SO trivial is not worth publishing. But there is undoubtedly a considerable class who may be amused and even interested by any memoir honestly written, and it is among these that I hope to find some readers. Numerous as are the autobiographies Of ordinary mortals, they generally depend more on anecdotes and persons I have seen than on the actual life-stories of the writers, which are Often sketchily handled. I have ventured, therefore, to think that the events of the life Of an ordinary member Of Society more fully treated might possess a certain value Of their own, even if a small one; and would perhaps some day acquire a positive interest when the Society in which they arose has ceased to exist. Nor have I omitted the usual seasoning Of anecdotes and glimpses Of celebrities when such have come in my way. 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.