Excerpt from The Shining Adventure Now, to lay hands upon the Pig, even in friendship, was sternly prohibited, for beneath his clever disguise as a plaything the Pig was a Penny Bank. Into him, every Christmas and birthday, had gone solemn consignments of new pennies which were to be the King's fortune when he grew up. But growing up was an interminable process and the King wanted his fortune immediately He wanted it for a Particular Purpose. The Particular Purpose lay directly beneath the King's window, and a most glorious green Purpose it was Within the borders of it tall trees lifted their plumed shakos to the sun. Dappled shadows lay upon the new, sweet grass. Flowers bloomed along the paths, a fountain tossed endless j ewels into the air, birds sang -in the lilac-bushes, caterpillars crawled upon the leaves. There were delightful worms. 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.