Excerpt from The Success of Failure N addition to the driving wind and the density of the I night, a heavy rain was falling when the last train for the day pulled into the little station Of Peterstown. Its only passenger, a man, alighted and made his way to Where the station-agent was standing upon the platform, and immediately inquired Of him where he could secure a conveyance to take him out to his Shack, a distance of about three miles. 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.