than to attend to me what your own mother and cannot she attend to her own child yes madam but she has servants to attend to me servants yes i think so said roughly they let you fall into the water and if it hadn t been for me you would be there still but come children let us have our supper they seated themselves at the table the mother placed before each a and a wooden spoon and helped them all to boiled beans while the father cut from a loaf of brown bread the little stranger came and sat with them but ate nothing you must soon tell us who you are said mrs for we must let your mother know that you are safe my mother loves me of course said the little fellow but she has no leisure to think about me to night is she like our mother asked chariot is but ours is better mine gives me fine clothes and all the money i want said the stranger and ours gives us kisses said and mine has servants to wait on me and our dear mother waits on us herself which is much better said chariot the man and his wife listened with much amusement to this friendly dispute they were just rising from the table when a loud knocking was heard at the door and a voice inquired is this the house of the man who that is my s voice whispered the little stranger as he slipped quickly under the table and hid don t tell him i am here he called out softly in a few minutes the room was filled with fine gentlemen dressed in gorgeous suits of silk and and gold a man clad in a red velvet cloak with a great cord and about his waist looked around the room and said to a soldier who stood at the door repeat your this evening at eight o clock said the soldier as i was on duty near the queen s palace i saw this man whose name is said to be running down the street wi i a child in his arms where is that child demanded the man in red here cried the child in question as he darted from his hiding place and stood in the midst of the crowd your whole court has been looking for you for two hours your majesty i am very glad to hear it cardinal said the boy your mother is in great uneasiness said the cardinal i am sorry cardinal that she has had any anxiety on my account i hope that you will come with us now that is just as i please cardinal but i hope it will be soon your mother � i must first thank these good people for their services said the child well make haste answered the cardinal fourth the boy turned towards the poor man and said my friend i am louis xiv the king of france i thank you for what you have done for me you shall have money to pay for the education of your two sons and i will give your daughter a here is my hand to kiss then turning to the cardinal he said now i am ready let us go not in that dress said the cardinal now first observing chariot s humble sunday suit which the little king was wearing while his own clothes were drying by the fire yes certainly in this dress answered louis why not the queen will be to see you in the garb of a peasant said the cardinal say no more said the little king stamping his foot impatiently i will go to her as i am then as he passed out to the carriage which was waiting at the door he turned to chariot and said come yourself to the palace to morrow and get your clothes and you may bring mine with you word study learn to pronounce paris k w chariot w a louis loo is poems to be for other to be see the village blacksmith p the night wind p and the frost p i a sweet and low sweet and low wind of the western sea low low breathe and blow wind of the western sea over the rolling waters go come from the dying moon and blow blow him again to me while my little one while my pretty one sleeps sleep and rest sleep and rest father will come to thee soon rest rest on mother s breast father will come to thee soon father will come to his babe in the nest silver sails all out of the west under the silver moon sleep my little one sleep my pretty one sleep by alfred ii the children s hour between the dark and the daylight when the night is beginning to lower comes a pause in the day s occupations that is known as the children s hour i hear in the chamber above me the of little feet the sound of the door that is opened and voices soft and sweet from my study i see in the descending the broad hall stair grave and laughing and with golden hair a whisper and then a silence yet i know by their merry eyes they are and planning together to take me by surprise a sudden rush from the a sudden from the hall by three doors left they enter my castle wall they climb up into my o er the arms and back of my chair by henry w if i try to escape they surround me they seem to be everywhere they almost me with kisses their arms about me till i think of the bishop of in his mouse tower on the do you think blue eyed because you have the wall such an old as i am is not a match for you all i 