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Excerpt from The Sapphire: A Collection of Graphic and Entertaining Tales, Brilliant Poems and Essays, Gleaned Chiefly From Fugitive Literature of the Nineteenth Century
William Maginn, the author of this amusing narrative, which' appeared in Blackwood's Magazine, May, 1834, was one of the most fertile and versatile writers of his times. He was born at Cork, Ire land, in 1793; died in 1842. He contributed largely to Fraser's and Blackwood's Magazines. 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.
