Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Other Things: But Here Woman Takes Her Proper Place The attitude of the Press towards my first book, The Man Who One Day a Year Would Go Eeh'n', has been so very friendly, I have been tempted to try again. While its 800136 was pretty broad, even going so far as to include under college sports a poker game and a couple of stories on horse racing, never theless, I found after it had been issued that there had been two omissions, one of them, at least, rather curious, Baseball - and the Ladies. In the present collection of a dozen new stories and sketches, I have corrected these, including a story, A College Baseball Game from the Players' Bench, in which I have endeavored to describe A New Angle something it is needless to say I should not dare to attempt with the fair sex, although they also now receive their full meed of. 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.