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Excerpt from The Works of Victor Hugo, Vol. 3: Les Miserables Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called a sparrow, the child is called a gutter-snipe. Couple these two ideas, which contain the one all the furnace, the other all the dawn; bring the two sparks, Paris and childhood, into collision, and a little being springs from them, - homuncio, as Plautus would say. This little being is joyous; he does not eat every day, and he goes to the theatre every night if he thinks proper. He has no shirt on his body, no shoes on his feet, and no roof over his head; he is like the flies of heaven, which have none of those things. He is from seven to thirteen years of age, lives in bands, lodges in the open air, wears an old pair of his father's trousers, which descend lower than his heels, an old hat belonging to some other father, which comes below his ears, and one yellow list brace. 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."