Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 225
kindly. I am Alfred, he said. People called meAlfred the Great. I was glad to hear you say that youwere fond of me. So many children do not even knowthere was such a person as Alfred. This, he told her, is the forest in wdiich I hidwhen the Danes were pursuing me night and day.There, pointing… … father, Pope Leo IV. When at home I learned to rideand shoot, but in the evening I lay at my mothers feetand listened to deeds of my forefathers. I became king at twenty-three, and immediately mytrouble began, for the Danes came and tried totyrannize over us. Then it was that I hid in the forest.…
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