Excerpt from The Sleepy King: A Fairy TaleIT was Christmas Eve in London, and the streets were white with freshly fallen snow. All the Shop windows were dressed in holiday clothes of ever greens and bright red berries, and lighted up as brightly as ever they could be.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.