Excerpt from Rollo: Learning to Talk The Great Vultures and the Little humming-birdtended to be read by a mother, or by one Of the older children, to a 'little 'one who is learning to talk. Their design is to interest and amuse the child, and at the same time to teach it the use of language and the meaning of words. To the reader, I have three directions to give. 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.