Harvest

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Excerpt from Harvest: A Melange Relating to Brooklyn City in Particular and to the World Generally Some time in the fall of 1862, the author of the following pages, from being an occasional, became a constant contributor to the Press, between intervals of study in preparing himself for the legal profession. His offerings, mostly of a light and unsentimental nature, were well received, and subsequently, (March, 1864), on being solicited, he connected himself with one of the daily papers, and gave to it exclusively eight of the best years of his life. They were not wasted years, for with the consciousness of having, to the best of his ability, without fear or favor, done what he conceived, and still conceives, to be a journalist's duty, he retains many pleasant assurances and mementoes of honorable approval, together with the friendship of many noble-minded men, with whom he was first brought into contact by the accidents and events which it was his business to chronicle. During this period of journalistic experience, terminated by his resignation, in order to engage in the practice of the law, there appeared from his pen, under many noms de plume, a number of Comic Ballads, Epigrams, &c., , a very inconsiderable portion of which the following pages comprise. 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.