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    Royal Children of English History
    Royal Children of English History
    Royal Children of English History
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    Royal Children of English History

    By E. (Edith) Nesbit, May Bowley and Frances Brundage

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Royal Children of English History

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      Royal Children of English History - E. (Edith) Nesbit

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      Title: Royal Children of English History

      Author: E. Nesbit

      Illustrator: Frances Brundage

      M. Bowley

      Release Date: October 4, 2009 [EBook #30167]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROYAL CHILDREN OF ENGLISH HISTORY ***

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      ALFRED THE GREAT LEARNING TO READ.

      Royal Children

      of

      English History,

      by E. Nesbit

      Illustrated by

      Frances Brundage

      and M. Bowley.

      Raphael Tuck & Sons, L

      td.

      London, Paris, New York

      Publishers

      to the QUEEN.

      No. 2091.

      Black & White Drawings & Letterpress printed in England

      Contents

      WHEN I was very, very little, I hated history more than all my other lessons put together, because I had to learn it out of a horrid little book, called somebody's Outlines of English History; and it seemed to be all the names of the kings and the dates of battles, and, believing it to be nothing else, I hated it accordingly.

      I hope you do not think anything so foolish, because, really, history is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the things that are happening here and now, and that are put in the newspapers, will be history for little children one of these days.

      The people in those old times were the same kind of people who live now. Mothers loved their children then, and fathers worked for them, just as mothers and fathers do now, and children then were good or bad, as the case might be, just as little children are now. And the people you read about in history were real live people, who were good and bad, and glad and sorry, just as people are now-a-days.

      a.d. 827.

      You know that if you were to set out on a journey from one end of England to another, wherever you went, through fields and woods and lanes, you would still be in the kingdom of Queen Victoria. But once upon a time, hundreds of years ago, if a child had set out to ride, he might have begun his ride in the morning in one kingdom, and finished it in the evening in another, because England was not one great kingdom then as it is now, but was divided up into seven pieces, with a king to look after each, and these seven kings were always quarrelling with each other and trying to take each other's kingdom away, just as you might see seven naughty children, each with a plot of garden, trying to take each other's gardens and spoiling each other's flowers in their wicked quarrels. But presently came one King, named Egbert, who was stronger than all the others; so he managed to put himself at the head of all the kingdoms, and he was the first King of all England. But though he had got the other kings to give in to him, he did not have at all a peaceful time. There were some very fierce wild pirates, called Danes, who used to come sailing across the North Sea in ships with carved swans' heads at the prow, and hundreds of fighting men aboard. Their own country was bleak and desolate, and they were greedy and wanted the pleasant English land. So they used to come and land in all sorts of places along the sea-shore, and then they would march across the fields and kill the peaceful farmers, and set fire to their houses, and take their sheep and cows. Or sometimes they would drive them out, and live in the farmhouses

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