Excerpt from Legendary Tales We all of us, I suspect, however, find it easiest, in such cases, to lay hold upon some trumpery little grievance, and make it the scape-goat of our unpleasant condition; and, perhaps, this may have been my resource on the evening I speak of. We shall see. 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.