Excerpt from Rumpty-Dudget's Tower: A Fairy Tale N 1877, when I was living in Twickenham, I near London, my Sister Una happened to be describing a queer Character she had met that day: she had a gift for making swift and vivid portraits in words. He was a little rumpty-dudget of a man, she said, conclud ing her description. She may have meant to say, Rumpelstiltskin, the name of a dwarf immortalised in the Grimm fairy-tales, with which we had been familiar in our childhood. But her variation struck me soundly, and I said to myself, I'll write a story about 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.