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Excerpt from A Speckled Bird
Certainly, because your father selected your name, and the bishop had no choice. It is so ugly, I never can like it, and a little baby that can't speak her mind ought not to be tied to something she must drag all her life and hate for ever and ever. Eat your breakfast, and try to be a good, quiet child, then your name will not trouble you so much. I never shall like it, any more than you do, and you know, grandma, when you call me your mouth twists like you had toothache. 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.
