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Excerpt from In Happy Far-Away Land
I have had no dinner answered the boy. My father, who is the king's cook, gave it to me this morning in a basket, which I set down in the shade of that tree over there, but Mary, the kitchen maid, who is always unkind to everybody, came this way before noon, and threw my basket into the brook. So I have had nothing to eat since breakfast, and I am very hungry. 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.