The Brown OwlONCE upon a time, a long while agoin fact long before Egypt had risen to power and before Rome or Greece had ever been heard ofand that was some time before you were born, you knowthere was a king who reigned over a very large and powerful kingdom. Now this king was rather old, he had founded his kingdom himself, and he had reigned over it nine hundred and ninety nine and a half years already. As I have said before, it was a very large kingdom, for it