Excerpt from Beauty and the Beast: Tales of Home The Prince burst into a yelling, shrieking fit Of laugh ter. Instantly the yellow-haired serfs in waiting, the Cal mucks at the hall-door, and the half-witted dwarf who crawled around the table in his tow shirt, began laughing in chorus, as violently as they could. The Princess Mar tha and Prince Boris laughed also; and while the Old man's eyes were dimmed with streaming tears of mirth, quickly exchanged nods. The sound extended all over the castle, and was heard outside of the walls. Father said Boris, let us have the festival, and Mishka shall perform again. Prince Paul of Kostroma would strangle, if he could see him. 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.