The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-10

PRINCES IN THE TOWER
and appeared listening tor tn, opening Of a
great barred door near them. Tie pet dog
IN the picture seemed to scent danger too
The children We're noble AMI prime 'ly look
ng They had long fair hair and black
velvet coats called doubletS in thoso days.
The boys are the princes imprisoned in
he Tower of London. Their story is one
IF lha sadd'st in hist ry. American chill
lren are happy enough to live in a republic
where boys and girls are not murdered be-
cause their father was king. But many
IF them have cried over thu sorrowful
story of these two lovely princes After
they went to be nigats they couldn't help
SEEING their pretty scare faces and dream
nc about them.
The two princes were tn, sons of King
Edward " of England. They lived more
than 400 years ago, but their fate was so
cruel and bloody that people sill talk AMI
write abou5 them. Their father did in
l4S3 After tlat the larger of the two
boys wa, kag L lwari V. H. was then
! IL years Cld pretty cbil-king. His
yCulgT brother, tie smaller bow was the
Duke OF YORK, but a very helpless little
! luke, as it came on
The br th,r5 IN a bIooi' AMI ambition
uncle, r chad, Dukt of Gloucester, pro-
uourcn 'GioSter,' He was hunchbacGei
and iil-luo ing, AMI as wicked "a; he was
uglv R.chW determined he would b, king
imselt, though he Ia TO wade through
| boot to the throne. He dti IT, too. He
causal TO be murdered, one after another
the lit lie prnca' friends. The two boys
.e'e living qUe-ly AVA in the country.
But wien thn.r ta'he' diel, auojh'r uncle.
their mp'ha"'i brother, stattal to bring
them TO Ljnipl. He meant thlt Edward
| II uld b, crowned knE. They had got rs
far on thor journey as Northampton. ilera
their uncle Richarl met them and took
charge o. rhem He pretelled he wanted
to ring th'm up to London himself He
really di Jhl- BTt instead of having his
nepAeW cl0wne |, he made both tho children
prisoners
He hal them ,hut upin tn, grel Tower Of
Lon lon, ON the river Thames. If you ever
90 to London hh sure AMI visit tn Tower OF
Lon Ion. Ii i, iul of rare ami curious
relics, some Of them Lunirel Is of years old
Ii Is an object lesson in English history to
see these STRANGE things. Ate" se'ins them
YOU wall always remember Elglisl history
better Shakespeare, in his pays, refers
continually To tn Tower and to objects now
ron aimed ia it. So 1t Will be like studying
Shake peare, too. 10 visit the old structure.
IL was II MAY l4S5, that Richard threw
bis nephews into the Tow +. He preteniel
he wantei to keep them safe from their enc
mics But he really meant to have them
nuri ared Though they Were the children of
his own brother The poor, pretty boy
never saw the free light AMI mir again.
They were never heard OF outside again. in
tact But il was whispered that they had
been stabbed to death in their sleep AM
heir bodies thrown down the narrow stair
cas-, the foot OF which you se' in the pic
mrn. Shakespeare makes their ex.Cutoner
ell R!chard
'',Ihe chaplain CT the Tower hath buriei
But wher', to say the truth, l 10 not
know.
Two ndred years later however, in the
reign OF King Charles II, some small human
bOnei were found IN a spot near the foot Of
the stair Everybody though, they were
jnn bones Of tn, hap.s' boy princes aud so
hey were taken up AMI buriel in West
minister Abbsy along with tn. hoiie, of
other royal princes III pla', where the
,mall skeleton were iourI j, marked by
brass table, IN the wall above with e proper
iusar ptioL You seq tie tab IN .hs mas.
tratiDH.
But before they wee slain their uncle,
the Duke o. G.ouce,5 ,r, had himself pro-
claim 4 King kcharj ILL., H. hni ali the
power in his own ha1i,. H. too b. aud
by, met a bloody death, as h d'snrvaL