Excerpt from The Cozy Lion: As Told by Queen Crosspatch I shall never forget the scold ing I gave him-to begin with. One of the advantages of being a Fairy - even quite a common one - is that Lions can't bite you. A Fairy is too little and too light. If they snap at you it 's easy to fly through their mouths, and even if they catch you, if you just get behind their teeth you can make them so uncomfortable that they will beg you to get out and leave them in peace. Of course it was all the Lion's fault that I scolded him. Lions ought to live far away from people. Nobody likes Lions roaming about - particularly where there are children. But this Lion said he wanted to get into Society, and that he was very fond of children - little fat ones between three and four. So instead of living on a desert, or in a deep forest or a jungle he took the large Cave on the Huge Green Hill, only a few miles from a vil lage full of the fattest, rosiest little children you ever saw. 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.