Excerpt from Nursery Noonings Certainly Harry was baby enough to satisfy a reasonable mind. His ignorance was of the most approved pattern, and penetrated every fastness in the whole province of knowledge. He not only, like Sir Thomas More, did not know Greek at three years of age, but he was very imperfectly acquainted with English. He had never so much as heard whether there be any alphabet. He knew how to tumble all the Collars, ribbons, and trinkets out of the up per drawer into a kaleidoscopic confusion. He could toss Billy the fireman toward the ceiling in such eccentric orbits that he would be sure to strike against the vase and upset the flowers on his way down. But of any useful knowl edge, Or of any knowledge that promised to be useful, he was destitute to a degree that would have charmed the heart of the most devoted believer in vital statistics. 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.