Excerpt from Speaking Likenesses Whoever saw Flora on her birthday morning, at half-past seven o'clock on that morning; saw a very pretty sight. Eight years old to a minute, and not awake yet. Her'cheeks were plump and pink, her light hair was all tumbled, her little red flips were held together as if to kiss some 0 her eyes also, if you could have seen them, were blue and merry, but for the moment they had gone fast asleep and out of Sight under fat little eyelids. Wagga the dog was up and about, Muff the cat was up and about, chirping birds were up and about; or if they were mere nestlings and so could not go about (supposing. 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.