island of and every where else richard however cared little or nothing for this complaint and in consideration of a present of twenty thousand pieces of gold promised his pretty little nephew arthur then a child of two years old in marriage to s daughter we shall hear again of pretty little arthur by and by this affair arranged without any body s brains being knocked out which must have rather disappointed him king richard took his sister away and also a fair lady named with whom he had fallen in love in france and whom his mother queen so long in prison remember but released by richard on his coming to a s history op england the throne had brought out there to be his wife and sailed with them for he soon had the pleasure of fighting the king of the island of for allowing his subjects to some of the english troops who were on the shore and easily conquering this poor monarch he seized his only daughter to be a companion to the lady and put the king himself into silver he then sailed away again with his mother sister wife and the captive princess and soon arrived before the town of acre which the french king with his fleet was from the sea but the french king was in no triumphant condition for his army had been by the swords of the and wasted by the plague and the brave of the at the head of a numerous army was at that time gallantly defending the place from the hills that rise above it wherever the united army of went they agreed in few points except in drinking and in a most manner in the people among whom they whether they were friends or foes and in carrying disturbance and ruin into quiet places the french king was jealous of the english king and the english king was jealous of the french king and the and violent soldiers of the two nations were jealous of one another consequently the two kings could not at first agree even upon a joint assault on acre but when they did make up their quarrel for that purpose the promised to yield the town to give up to the christians the wood of the richard the first holy cross to set at liberty all their christian and to pay two hundred thousand pieces of gold all this was to be done within forty days but not being done king richard ordered some three thousand prisoners to be brought out in the front of his camp and there in full view of their own countrymen to be the french king had no part in this crime for he was by that time homeward with the greater part of bis men being offended by the conduct of the english king being anxious to look after his own and being ill besides from the air of that hot and sandy country king richard carried on the war without him and remained in the east meeting with a variety of adventures nearly a year and a half every night when his army was on the march and came to a halt the cried out three times to remind all the soldiers of the cause in which they were engaged save the holy and then all the soldiers knelt and said amen marching or the army had continually to strive with the hot air of the glaring desert or with the soldiers animated and directed by the brave or with both together sickness and death battle and wounds were always among them but through every difficulty king richard fought like a giant and worked like a common long and long after he was quiet in his grave his terrible battle ax with twenty english pounds of english steel in its mighty head was a legend among the and when all the and christian hosts had been for many a year if a horse started at a child s history of any object by the his rider would exclaim what dost thou fear fool dost thou think king richard is behind it no one admired this king s renown for bravery more than himself who was a generous and gallant enemy when richard lay ill of a fever sent him fresh fruits from and snow from the mountain tops messages and compliments were frequently exchanged between them � and then king richard would mount his horse and kill as many as he could and would mount his and kill as many christians as he could in this way king richard fought to his heart s content at and at and finding himself with nothing exciting to do at except to for his own some there which the had destroyed he kicked his ally the duke of for being too proud to work at them the army at last came within sight of the holy city of but being then a mere nest of jealousy and and fighting soon retired and agreed with the upon a for three years three months three days and three hours then the english christians protected by the noble from revenge visited our s tomb and then king richard embarked with a small force at acre to return home but he was in the sea and was fain to pass through germany under an assumed name now there were many people in germany who had served in the holy land under that proud duke of who had been kicked and some the first of then easily a man go remarkable as king richard carried their intelligence to the kicked duke who straightway took him prisoner at a little inn near the duke s master the emperor of germany and the king of france were equally delighted to have so troublesome a monarch in safe keeping which are founded on a in doing wrong are never true and the king of france 