Excerpt from Drumsticks: A Little Story of a Sinner and a Child He had known of its existence, yet the incongruity of its presence in this house had never struck him before. He had been aware that somewhere away up in the fourth story there was a place Where a child lived, uneventfully enough, hidden away under the eaves like a swallow. The thought had knocked at the door of his sense. He had heard Sophie speak of her, yet not as often as she had spoken of the cook. 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.