King Midas And The Golden Touch is a wonderful legend which Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) made famous. With Uncle Ted the Let's Pretenders travel on a magical merry-go-round into the story, which begins like this; Once upon a time there lived a very rich king whose name was Midas. He had a little daughter whom he named Marigold and he'd chosen this name especially because it had gold in it and gold was the thing he liked best in the whole world next to the little princess herself. The royal treasure room was filled almost to overflowing but king Midas was always thinking out of ways to get more gold..