Government Clerks

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Government Clerks: A Book of Ballads Ere's to the workaday government clerk, Who does to the government's credit his work; Trudging each day a monotonous track, Forward and backward and forward and back; Pegging away at the ancient routine, (much is accomplished where little is seen); Arduous labor and technical work, Here's to the workaday government clerk! 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.