Excerpt from Chimes From a Jester's Bells: Stories and Sketches And the baby himself knew as little about it as did the learned people gathered to wel come him. He heard them speak. He had never used his ears until now, but he could hear with them. A good lusty cry, some one said. He did not understand the words, but he kept on crying. 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.