HOW A PRINCE LEARNED TO READ - Chapter II of II

HOW A PRINCE LEARNED TO READ - Chapter II of II

A few weeks passed by. Then, one morning, Alfred went into his mother's
room with a smiling, joyous face.

"Mother," he said, "will you let me see that beautiful book again?"

His mother unlocked her cabinet and took the precious volume from its
place of safe keeping.

Alfred opened it with careful fingers. Then he began with the first
word on the first page and read the first story aloud without making
one mistake.

"O my child, how did you learn to do that?" cried his mother.

"I asked the monk, Brother Felix, to teach me," said Alfred. "And every
day since you showed me the book, he has given me a lesson. It was no
easy thing to learn these letters and how they are put together to
make words. Now, Brother Felix says I can read almost as well as
he."

"How wonderful!" said his mother.

"How foolish!" said Ethelbald.

[Illustration]

"You will be a good monk when you grow up," said Ethelred, with a
sneer.

But his mother kissed him and gave him the beautiful book. "The prize
is yours, Alfred," she said. "I am sure that whether you grow up to
be a monk or a king, you will be a wise and noble man."

And Alfred did grow up to become the wisest and noblest king that
England ever had. In history he is called Alfred the Great.

Read next: "READ, AND YOU WILL KNOW"

Read previous: HOW A PRINCE LEARNED TO READ - Chapter I of II

Table of content of Fifty Famous People - A book of short stories


GO TO TOP OF SCREEN

Post your review
Your review will be placed after the table of content of this book