Madame Jane Junk and Joe
A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Madame Jane Junk and Joe: A Novel<br><br>Authors commonly offer more or less Apologies in a preface; and it often happens that those points which the writer considers weak, are thought by the reader to be the strongest portions of the work.<br><br>If I offer an apology for this book, I shall be but following in the footsteps of authors gone before. These apologetic prefaces, when put into plain English, can only mean, "Please excuse a book so full of shortcomings that it should not hare been written, or, if at all, at some other time, or in some other place;" and, it might frequently be added with truth, by some other person.<br><br>Now, I have no wish to be left out in the cold, through failing to make the usual number of apologies.<br><br>To begin with, if I have painted my women with hair parted too far on one side, and the men with hair parted too much in the middle, my excuse for so doing is, that it is the fashion of the day.<br><br>The next excuse I shall offer is this: had Joe been a man at the opening of our story, I should have placed him at the top of the title-page, instead of at the bottom, in recognition of the superiority of his sex. Inasmuch as he was but a boy, I think it suitable for him to sit at the feet of his mother.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.