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Excerpt from The Book of Saint Nicholas: Translated From the Original Dutch In prosecuting this biography, and thus striving to repay my obligations for divers, and I must say unmerited favours received from this good saint, after whom I was christened, I shall refrain from all invention or hyperbole, seeking the truth indus triously, and telling it simply and without reserve or embellishment. I scorn to impose on'my read are with cock and bull stories of his killing dragons, slaughtering giants, or defeating whole armies of pagans with his single arm. St. Nicholas was a peaceful, quiet, orderly saint', who, so far as I have been able to learn, never shed a drop of blood in his whole life, except, perad'venture, it may be pos sible he sometimes cut his finger, of which I pro fess to know nothing, and, therefore, contrary to the custom of biographers, shall say nothing. 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.

Translated from the Original Dutch of Dominie Nicholas Aegidius Oudenarde.