Excerpt from Ernest Richmond: And His Little Mother<br><br>Ir may be proper to state, that the story narrated in the following pages is strictly true. All of its charac ters once moved and breathed, and part of them are liv ing now.<br><br>Some of our readers may consider the character of Ernest to be most too perfect to be altogether natural, and entertain doubts as to whether any such person ever existed; yet they would not think thus had they known the clear boy, of whom as faithful a portraiture as human hands can produce would fall far short of the original.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.