Excerpt from An Eventful Night: A Comedy of a Western Mining Town I am not going to lead up to my story gracefully, for when you have learned that my name is George Manning and that I was, at the time the thing happened, visit ing my married sister in one of the liveli est, roughest, and most altogether corrupt mining towns to which a lady of culture was ever carried by an adoring husband, you know all that it is needful you should know of me, prior to my little burst of notoriety. 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.