Excerpt from Danish Fairy Tales The boy grew up strong and healthy and turned out an honest, truth-loving lad, who never gave his parents any trouble or caused them any sorrow. But they did not take very good care of the key, and the boy used to play with it until one fine day he lost it. Many years passed and the boy had grown a big lad, when one day, as he was helping his father to cart dung, he found in the dung-heap an old rusty key. He showed it to his mother, who recognized it at once, and told the boy that it was the key he had got as a christening gift, and then she told him the whole story of the old beggar man and what he had said. The boy put the key in his pocket and henceforth took great care of it. 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.