Excerpt from Peter Homunculus: A Novel He flew back to wild excursions into forests, early loves, love-tokens, baby kisses, thefts, burnings, plunder ings, gorgeous lies; school and the tedium of school; books and the pride of books, new worlds revealed; the first shamed consciousness of sex, awful colloquies in dark corners with other boys; hanging on to the grating of the slaughter-house with others to watch a sheep killed: the persecution of an idiot in the town whom some imp had christened Yellow Belly. He saw clearly the crowd of urchins racing down the main street of the little country town on market day, past the market hall. 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.