Excerpt from Tales of Fantasy Since fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, have lived on this big ball, the earth, that goes spin ning around the sun, they have found that they have two worlds to enjoy. One is real, the other is make believe; one has been given us ready-made, though in such shape that we can change it in some respects, the other we have made for ourselves, and we are continu ally adding to it. 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.