Orange Fairy Book

"What am I to do now?" said he to himself. "I think I had better go to court, and enter into the service of the king."

At first he was only a servant, who carried the king the water for his bath, and saw that his bed was made in a particular fashion. But he did his duties so well that his master soon took notice of him, and in a short time he rose to be a gentleman of the bedchamber.