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Excerpt from St. Solifer With Other Worthies and Unworthies I find I must post the sign of King Nigressus. I learn from the younger Montaltus (by bis more glorious name, Lepidus) that the seventh Nigressus, King of Null-lbi, carried the splendor of the court far beyond any of bis ancestors, and especially was magnificent in bis gardens. He bad many evergreens, which, in convenient comers or under thick shrubbery, he trimmed into the shapes of lions, tigers, and other wild beasts, and robbers. Now, as he threw his gardens open to the people and they flocked thither in the evenings, they mistook those fantastic trees for fierce brutes and enemies lying in wait; by which they so were frightened out of their wits that Nigressus, to save himself from ruling over a craved nation, set up a sign at the gate, illuminated at night, telling the people they should not fear, and the fierce shapes which they might come on, seeming to be crouching in lairs, were not wild beasts, but very tame trees cunningly trimmed. 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.