Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-04-07
Pace Ceolred and His Friends.


ed upon his majesty wherever he went. |
The king thought SO much of him that |
he did not like to have him ont of his |
sight. He slept on rug nj the foot |
of the kings bed and was always with. |
in call. You may be sure that he was !
faithful or the king would not have liked I
him SO we'll
Ceoired had not always lived in the |
palace. lie was a charcoal burners son |
and was born in the forest lie had |
grown up to love country things: flowers |
and animals, the trees that whispered in |
the wood, the habhling brooks and the |
melody of the birds. Still, he was hap. |
pier i'll the palace than he had ever been |
in the forest
| must tell you how Ceolred came to hc |
a page III the palace and SO trusted 10y !
the king When he was about L. years |
old and living in his fathers hut, IL royal |
courtier went through the land, crying |
out that the king wanted II faithful page, |
and that every poor bay was invited to
go up to the palace and Try for the place.
Hundreds went up, hoping TO secure 1t
for 1t was Il great honor, as you all must
know, 10 live i'll the palace and be the
| kings favoritc page.
The king gave days trial to each
boy that came. He sent him to the gar
wei land pour il into a haske1 that w"s
on the ground Now, the boys thought
this was a very foolish thing to do, and
| they would idle away their time. For
of what use is it," they said. ITO try to
| fill this basket with water? 1t runs ont
| as faS as we pour il in"
So, of course, when the king came Mt
night and found the task accom-
| plished, he sent each boy in turn away.
| But when Ceolrcd came and was sent
| into the garden he kept al his work all
| day. aud at night the we'll was almost
emptied. As he cmptied his last bucket
| full into the basket he saw something in
it that glistened like gold. He stopped
| and picked ont costly jcWclCd ring,
which the bucket had dipped up from the
bottom of the well. just then the king
came into the garden.
| Nov You can see the use of all this
work" he said to Ceolred. II wanted to
see who the patient, obedient. faithful
boy was and you have proved Yourself
to be one The ring is for yon and Won
shall be the first of all my pages.
Ceolred was not many months in the
lpalace before he discovered that The king
had a secret, for he was worried and
anxious, and his sleep forsook him and
even the company of his faithful little
page did not console him.
one day the king sent Ceolrcd an an
GRAND to a ncighboring city. rs he was
riding along. singing "a gay SONG that he
had learned at court, he heard the plain
tive loo of Il COW. Looking in the direc-
ton Of the sound he saw beautiful
black-hornod white COW standing hy q
fence, her head resting on a pole.
i tcolred could never bear Ia sec any.
thing in distress. SO he dismoHntod aud
went up to the COW. pattine her soft,
warm neck aud scratching her along the
ldcWlap. The COW lifted up her head and
rested her hairy chin on the boys shout
der, breathing upon his face and he
thought he could see tearms standing in
her eyes.
Then ne heard faint hIeat, and look
ing over the fence he saw young calf.
trying to get to its mother. III Il mo-
ment he lifted it across and tcndcrly
guided it to the anxious dam
Then he mounted and rode on again,
but he had only gone short distance
when he heard birds waiting note and
saw a mother thrash tuttcriug aud hit
ting over a little bunch on the ground
Now h. WAS in great hurry, but be-
could not pass by anything that needed
lbs hrp. so be got down from his horse.
went 10 the spot where the little bird
Il was and restored il to its nest. the
mother bird thanking him for Ills kind
ness 10y singing her sweetest notes.
Tho day grew warm and Ccolrcd rode
oh through the sunshine. intent on the
king crraud. Before he reached the
city however hc was halted again. this
TN" 10y the Whjmpcring of q hound. He
did not he~itat" moment. but went to
Sct what he could do for the wounded
animal some one had shot it in the
lex Will am arrow. and it could only
just limp. teolrod bound up the broken
Fc- the best hc could. gave the animal
~nhtr bread from his pouch to ~al~iY