Excerpt from The Comic Annual, 1834 As usual, I have endeavoured to conciliate the utilitarians, by mingling a little instruction with amusement; after the manner of the Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Thus the Reformer of our Legal Institutions will meet with a few sub missive hints; and so will the religious Formalist, on the exuberant exercise of the holy-stone on the upper deck; while an improvement is sug gested in naval poetry; and a protest is entered against the British Leaf, even as King James Counter-blasted the Virginian. I would fain be of use to my countrymen and only regret that I have not the power ascribed to me by a very respectable householder of the neighbourhood, who has called repeatedly when I have been at home, to inquire when I should be out P After reminding me that last year I had made game of the Zoological Farm, and satirized the Fasting, and taken off the Water-drinking, Why, said he, can't you take qfl the Assessed Taxes P. 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.