Excerpt from The Golden Goose: And Other Fairy Tales Once upon a time a king and a queen had an only daughter. Her forehead was so white that when people looked at it they cried, Oh, the little white rose! And her cheeks were so red that no one who saw them could help exclaiming, Oh, the little red rose I For this reason it came to pass that the child was known throughout the kingdom as the Little Rose. 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.