From Head to Toe, 18

Head to Toe:

Boning Up on the Bones of the Body

Skull (q): ear 3: stapes

Well, this one is our smallest bone—

The stapes inside the middle ear.

And if you didn’t have your own,

Your hearing would not be too clear—

In fact, you couldn’t hear at all,

For this transmits vibrations that

Permit us to hear whisper—call—

An umpire’s cry: “You’re up to bat!”