Excerpt from King Arthur Stories From Malory: Done From the Text of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur The aim of this little book is to give to the pupil a connected cycle of Sir Thomas Malory's quaint, beautiful stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. The book grew out of a need of the work at St. Agatha. It makes no pretense to originality of matter. On the contrary, every effort has been made to keep the text like the original, just so far as is compatible with the understanding of the child. So, while much matter has been discarded in order that the stories might be brought within reasonable compass, the form and diction are Malory's. A few difficult construc tions have been simplified, and some of the old est English expressions changed. Such obsolete or archaic forms as have been retained will, it is be lieved, with the help of the context and the glos sary appended, be easily understood by the chil . 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.