Excerpt from Life, Adventures and Anecdotes of Beau Hickman, the Prince of American Bummers Perhaps an apology should be offered for imposing; hese sketches of a useless life upon the public ed biographies should never be written of persons who, during their lives, neglected to make memoranda, or failed to preserve any data to insure exact truthful ness. In this instance the writer has had nothing of the kind to aid him, for the subject of these sketches was a professional man of leisure, and eschewed trouble and inconvenience. The main sources to draw from were the on dit of the town and general recollections. Of the country. The files of the National Republican? Washington Chronicle, Evening Star and the Capital. Also furnished many of the incidents contained in the. 'following pages. It is hoped that the same excuse that justified their ublic generally in tolerating and patronizing so singun lar a character will serve as an apology for thus collect ing the main incidents of his life. 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.