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Famous StoriesThe Miller Of The DeeOnce upon a time there lived on the banks of the River Dee ... Sir Philip Sidney A cruel battle was being fought. The ground was covered wit... Androclus And The Lion In Rome there was once a poor slave whose name was An'dro-c... The White Ship King Henry, the Handsome Scholar, had one son, named Willia... The Ungrateful Guest Among the soldiers of King Philip there was a poor man who ... The Ungrateful Soldier Here is another story of the bat-tle-field, and it is much ... Julius Caesar Nearly two thousand years ago there lived in Rome a man who... The Sons Of William The Conqueror There was once a great king of England who was called Wil-l... A Story Of Robin Hood In the rude days of King Rich-ard and King John there were ... The Barmecide Feast There was once a rich old man who was called the Bar-me-cid... Maximilian And The Goose Boy One summer day King Max-i-mil'ian of Ba-va'ri-a was walking... The Story Of Regulus On the other side of the sea from Rome there was once a gre... King Alfred And The Beggar At one time the Danes drove King Alfred from his kingdom, a... The Sword Of Damocles There was once a king whose name was Di-o-nys'i-us. He was ... Grace Darling It was a dark Sep-tem-ber morning. There was a storm at sea... Bruce And The Spider There was once a king of Scot-land whose name was Robert Br... Mignon Here is the story of Mignon as I remember having read it in... Casabianca There was a great battle at sea. One could hear nothing but... Whittington And His Cat The City There was once a little boy whose name was Rich... Other Wise Men Of Gotham One day, news was brought to Gotham that the king was comin... |
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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