Excerpt from A Child's Story of Hans Christian Andersen Crowded with people in holiday attire, flags and bunting fluttered from house tops and fronts, and practically all business was suspended. Of course no one could, at that time, identify the celebration with the birth of the most famous writer Denmark ever produced, but we may now regard it somehow as the town's first greeting to its wonder ful son. 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.