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Excerpt from The Ice King: And the Sweet South Wind And I hope, dear children, you or I May never the Ice King see. Yet for all the Ice King sits there in such stern majesty upon his lofty throne, which is as broad, and as brilliant, as the mighty Falls of Niagara would he, were the whole glorious mass of waters, in their stupendous leap, suddenly to become solid glittering ice; and although he is guarded on every side by those icy-mailed warriors rattling their sharp pointed spears, yet the Ice King sometimes shakes with fear, and mighty throes, as of an earthquake, heave his stony bosom, and great drops gather upon his brow, and then falling slowly down his icy face, and freezing as they fall, rattle like hailstones through his icicled beard. 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.