Includes The panic of thirty-six; The stage competitors; The gentleman from Cahawba; Stray leaves from a portfolio; Monsieur Flute.

Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.—Herrick.Let well alone.—Proverb.How much real comfort every one might enjoy if he would be contented with the lot in which heaven has cast him, and how much trouble would be avoided if people would only "let well alone." A moderate independence, quietly and honestly procured, is certainly every way preferable even to immense possessions achieved by the wear and tear of mind and body so necessary to procure them. Yet there are very few individuals, let them be doing ever so well in the world, who are not always straining every nerve to do better; and this is one of the many causes why failures in business so frequently occur among us. The present generation seem unwilling to "realize" by slow and sure degrees; but choose rather to set their whole hopes upon a single cast, which either makes or mars them forever!

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Excerpt from The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots: With Other Sketches of the Times The author of this volume does not apprehend, that, among the objections which may be brought against it by those redoubtable personages, the critics, its brevity will be included. A word of explanation, however, may be neces sary to account for its somewhat attenuated dimensions. It was not until the greater part of the work had been put to press, that the author found he had fettered himself by the title of his volume within a very limited range of selection from his miscellaneous prose productions. Hits at the Times was not a designation sufficiently comprehensive to embrace sketches of an Opposite character, which were far more abundant, and would have swollen'the volume to an ambitious size. In one instance only, has there been a de parture from the plan; and for that, the solicitation of many friends, must be the plea and the extenuation. 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.