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Famous StoriesKing Alfred And The BeggarAt one time the Danes drove King Alfred from his kingdom, a... Bruce And The Spider There was once a king of Scot-land whose name was Robert Br... The Blind Men And The Elephant There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side ev... George Washington And His Hatchet When George Wash-ing-ton was quite a little boy, his father... The Miller Of The Dee Once upon a time there lived on the banks of the River Dee ... Androclus And The Lion In Rome there was once a poor slave whose name was An'dro-c... Alexander And Bucephalus One day King Philip bought a fine horse called Bu-ceph'a-lu... Other Wise Men Of Gotham One day, news was brought to Gotham that the king was comin... The King And His Hawk Gen'ghis Khan was a great king and war-rior. He led his ... Damon And Pythias A young man whose name was Pyth'i-as had done something whi... Doctor Goldsmith There was once a kind man whose name was Oliver Gold-smith.... The Ungrateful Guest Among the soldiers of King Philip there was a poor man who ... Pocahontas There was once a very brave man whose name was John Smith. ... The Brave Three Hundred All Greece was in danger. A mighty army, led by the great K... The Sword Of Damocles There was once a king whose name was Di-o-nys'i-us. He was ... King John And The Abbot The 3 Questions. There was once a king of England whose... Sir Humphrey Gilbert More than three hundred years ago there lived in England a ... Grace Darling It was a dark Sep-tem-ber morning. There was a storm at sea... A Story Of Robin Hood In the rude days of King Rich-ard and King John there were ... Arnold Winkelried A great army was marching into Swit-zer-land. If it should ... |
THE UNGRATEFUL SOLDIERHere is another story of the bat-tle-field, and it is much like the one which I have just told you. Not quite a hundred years after the time of Sir Philip Sidney there was a war between the Swedes and the Danes. One day a great battle was fought, and the Swedes were beaten, and driven from the field. A soldier of the Danes who had been slightly wounded was sitting on the ground. He was about to take a drink from a flask. All at once he heard some one say,-- "O sir! give me a drink, for I am dying." It was a wounded Swede who spoke. He was lying on the ground only a little way off. The Dane went to him at once. He knelt down by the side of his fallen foe, and pressed the flask to his lips. "Drink," said he, "for thy need is greater than mine." Hardly had he spoken these words, when the Swede raised himself on his elbow. He pulled a pistol from his pocket, and shot at the man who would have be-friend-ed him. The bullet grazed the Dane's shoulder, but did not do him much harm. "Ah, you rascal!" he cried. "I was going to befriend you, and you repay me by trying to kill me. Now I will punish you. I would have given you all the water, but now you shall have only half." And with that he drank the half of it, and then gave the rest to the Swede. When the King of the Danes heard about this, he sent for the soldier and had him tell the story just as it was. "Why did you spare the life of the Swede after he had tried to kill you?" asked the king. "Because, sir," said the soldier, "I could never kill a wounded enemy." "Then you deserve to be a no-ble-man," said the king. And he re-ward-ed him by making him a knight, and giving him a noble title. Next: SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT Previous: SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
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