Fifty Famous Stories Retold

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Baldwin James. Fifty Famous Stories Retold

CONCERNING THESE STORIES

KING ALFRED AND THE CAKES

KING ALFRED AND THE BEGGAR

KING CANUTE ON THE SEASHORE

THE SONS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR

THE WHITE SHIP

KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT

I. THE THREE QUESTIONS

II. THE THREE ANSWERS

A STORY OF ROBIN HOOD

BRUCE AND THE SPIDER

THE BLACK DOUGLAS

THREE MEN OF GOTHAM

OTHER WISE MEN OF GOTHAM

THE MILLER OF THE DEE

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

THE UNGRATEFUL SOLDIER

SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

POCAHONTAS

GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HIS HATCHET

GRACE DARLING

THE STORY OF WILLIAM TELL

ARNOLD WINKELRIED

THE BELL OF ATRI

HOW NAPOLEON CROSSED THE ALPS

THE STORY OF CINCINNATUS

THE STORY OF REGULUS

CORNELIA'S JEWELS

ANDROCLUS AND THE LION

HORATIUS AT THE BRIDGE

JULIUS CÆSAR

THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES

DAMON AND PYTHIAS

A LACONIC ANSWER

THE UNGRATEFUL GUEST

ALEXANDER AND BUCEPHALUS

DIOGENES THE WISE MAN

THE BRAVE THREE HUNDRED

SOCRATES AND HIS HOUSE

THE KING AND HIS HAWK

DOCTOR GOLDSMITH

THE KINGDOMS

THE BARMECIDE FEAST

THE ENDLESS TALE

THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT

MAXIMILIAN AND THE GOOSE BOY

THE INCHCAPE ROCK

WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT

I. THE CITY

II. THE KITCHEN

III. THE VENTURE

IV. THE CAT

V. THE FORTUNE

CASABIANCA

ANTONIO CANOVA

PICCIOLA

MIGNON

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Many years ago there lived in Eng-land a wise and good king whose name was Al-fred. No other man ever did so much for his country as he; and people now, all over the world, speak of him as Alfred the Great.

In those days a king did not have a very easy life. There was war almost all the time, and no one else could lead his army into battle so well as he. And so, between ruling and fighting, he had a busy time of it indeed.

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"The youngest son, Henry, will be wise and prudent and peaceful. He will go to war only when he is forced to do so by his enemies. He will be loved at home, and re-spect-ed abroad; and he will die in peace after having gained great pos-ses-sions."

Years passed by, and the three boys had grown up to be men. King William lay upon his death-bed, and again he thought of what would become of his sons when he was gone. Then he re-mem-bered what the wise men had told him; and so he de-clared that Robert should have the lands which he held in France, that William should be the King of England, and that Henry should have no land at all, but only a chest of gold.

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