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Excerpt from The Leasures of a Book-Worm Productions, as is generally supposed. Not many months ago three or four of these little wretches were found busy at work in a bundle of sheets in the quire-room of a London publisher, and the paper which they appeared to enjoy so much was barely twenty. 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.