Excerpt from The King of the Golden River: And Other Stories The youngest brother, Gluck, was as com pletely opposed, in both appearance and char acter, to his seniors as could possibly be imag ined or desired. He was not above twelve years Old, fair, blue-eyed, and kind in temper to every living thing. He did not, of course, agree particularly well with his brothers, or rather, they did not agree with him. He was usually appointed to the honorable office of turnspit, when there was anything to roast, which was not Often for, to do the brothers justice, they were hardly less sparing upon themselves than Upon other people. At other times he used to clean the Shoes, floors, and sometimes the plates, occasionally getting what was left on them, by way of encouragement, and awholesale quantity of dry blows, by way of education. 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.