Excerpt from The Discard: Being the Historical Remnants of a Rough Neck, Translated and Amended From the Original Canadian Vernacular and Done for the first Time Into Collateral English
Now. As I had in the theatre seen people pay anywhere from twenty-five cents to five dollars to watch a made-up bunch of repeaters pull 08 a stunt of manufactured imita tion. And as I felt sure I had seen in real life. Sounder hearts. Sillier dubs. Moother scoundrels and meaner villains than ever trod a stage. I concluded that if I could with semi-lucid language exhibit them in a book I could hold the reader for an hour or two without over loading his brain or putting him in a torpor that would necessitate a doctor. Finally. Having been around a few curves and over some settled dumps within living memory. I decided to record a brief and truthful sum mary - with the co-relations and explanations necessary to elucidate and amplify them - oi my patriotic efforts at trying to get in.
Chapter II. Obtained by bribery and maintained by fraud.

Alexander Charles Stewart (1867-1944) was the author of several volumes of verse, all published between 1890 and the end of the First World War. This is his one work of humorous fiction.