New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
Fdfe Of TIE Daupbin

gay and arectionate. Many beautiful
stories are told OF him
one day. after his lessons had been inter
ruptec for a Few days. his tutor. Abbs
G AVaux. who had been trying 20 teach him
ABOUT the three degrees OF counparison-
posluFe. comparative and superlative-said
10 him that he supposed he had forgotten
al aoout II by this time. but the Dauphin
answered; You are mistaken Listen 10 me.
IL Is positive when say my abbe Is good
abbe. II Is comparative when I say nv
ao0e is better than any other abbe: Il Is
superlauve when I say. Mamma IS the
loveiest OF all mammas' % TIE poor Queen.
whose heart was very sad al that time.
took him in her arms and for a moment
forgot her troules
The little Dauphin did not care much for
books he liked better 20 run about than
70 study. But he WAS so fond OF his lovely
mamma that he studied 10 please her. II
does not seem very dreadful TO US that a
little boy OF four and a half should be una
Die 70 read. but a little boy who is going 70
be king has so much 10 learn that the
Queen thought he ought 70 get on faster.
so the Dauphin resolved that he would
learn 70 read as a New Years present 10
MS mother. M the end Of November. fnd-
Ing that he had only = month left ne said
10 the Abbe o'Avaux; Il beg you. my good
abbe. give me TWO lessons a day have
promised mamma 10 be able 10 read on
New Years Day." And on New Years
Day he went 70 the Queen in triumph II
have kept my promise" he said. Now I
know how 10 read
All this time the prince was learning also
thai princes and royalties are not so happy
as some people imagine. The fairy tale was
coming 10 an end. Tor very dreadful things
had been happening in France. One day an
angry mob surrounded the palace at Yer
sailles. and the DaUphin and his sister. the
Princess Royal were taken from their beds
70 be shown 70 the people. The little prince
did not know what the trouble was al
about. and as lac stood on a chair at the
window he said: Mamma I am hungry"
The Queen answered: Have patience, my
child. These disturbances must first be
brought 70 an END.
But the disturbance vas very long n
coming 10 an end The mob carried the
royal family back 10 Paris and there for a
couple OF years they were practically i'm
prisoned In The Tuileries. while angry raObs
proWled outside demanding the life Of the
King and the Queen. why do they want
20 XIII papa:" asked the Dauphin. He is
80 good" On. day be heard some one use
the expression Happy as q queen" and
he was sorely puzzled They cannot mean
mamma" he said. FOR she is always cry
ing" Sometimes the mob broke into the
palace. and one evening the Dauphin was
obliged 70 sit beside his mother on a table
while the people fled past and looked az
him as though he had been some kind Of
curiosity IN = circus. Next day they came
again, and the poor child asked. I'm bewil-
oer1nent, Isn't yesterday over yetZ''
Poor little Dauphin-yesterdsy never was
over for him. unless the story about his
escape from the Temple is true. He was
taken there with his parents, his sister and
his aunt. the Princess Elizabeth, on Au-
gust e, 1872. and there It is all too certain
that he died. After the French people had
killed his papa because they imagined that
he was 70 blame for their sufferingz. the
Dsuphin was torn from the arms Of his
mother-who soon followed her husband 20
thu scsffold-and placed IN the care OF q
brutal man named Simon. His life with
Simon is much too sad 20 be told and he is
supposed 10 have died from the effects OF
neglect and III treatment on June s. l795
when he was little over ten years OF age