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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 379

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Richard,his brother, a boy of eleven, was known as the Duke of York. Yes, many a boy and girl looked almost with envy that day uponthe two royal children, and wondered how it felt to be the son of aking and lord of a nation. But the men and women who looked on thought of somethingvery different.… … lads, else how could he have so painted them, that stout men feellike sobbing when they look at the wonderful picture? Il hangs to-dayin the gallery of the Louxembourg. in Paris; and every day groups ofpitying children stand before it, feeling not at all as the crndren didwho saw the princes ride…

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