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Project Gutenberg's Royal Children of English History, by E. Nesbit This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Royal Children of English History Author: E. Nesbit Illustrator: Frances Brundage M. Bowley Release Date: October 4, 2009 [EBook #30167] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROYAL CHILDREN OF ENGLISH HISTORY *** Produced by Emmy, Tor Martin Kristiansen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the University of Florida Digital Collections.) [Illustration: Royal Children of English History] [Illustration: ALFRED THE GREAT LEARNING TO READ.] [Illustration] Royal Children of English History, by E. Nesbit Illustrated by Frances Brundage and M. Bowley. RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS, LTD. London, Paris, New York Publishers to the QUEEN. No. 2091. Black & White Drawings & Letterpress printed in England Contents Page Alfred the Great 5 Prince Arthur 12 Henry the Third 20 The First Prince of Wales 27 Edward the Black Prince 35 Henry the Fifth and the Baby King 42 [Illustration] [Illustration: ROYAL CHILDREN OF ENGLISH HISTORY Alfred the Great.] 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
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