Excerpt from A Madeira Party: Also, a Little More Burgundy Sometime earlyin the second quarter of the century, in the City of Penn, and in what was then known as delaware-fourth street, soon after dusk in the evening, occurred the unimpor tant events of which I shall speak. 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.