Identifier: dickensworks07dick (find matches)
Title: Dicken's works
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: Boston : Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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se a number of armed men and to goto the Crusade. He could not do so without money.He had no money; and he sold his dominions to hisbrother, the Red King, for five years. AVith thelarge sum he thus obtained, he fitted out his Crusad-ers gallantly, and went away to Jerusalem in mar-tial state. The Eed King, who made money out ofeverything, stayed at home, busily squeezing moremoney out of Normans and English. After three years of great hardship and suffering— from shipwreck at sea; from travel in strangelands; from hunger, thirst, and fever, upon theburning sands of the desert; and from the fury ofthe Turks — the valiant Crusaders got possession ofOur Saviours tomb. The Turks were still resistingand fighting bravely, but this success increased thegeneral desire in Europe to join the Crusade.Another great Erench Duke was proposing to sellhis dominions for a term to the rich Red King,when the Red Kings reign came to a sudden andviolent end. You have not forgotten the New Forest which
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A childs history of ENGLAND. 85 the Conqueror made, and which the miserable peo-ple whose homes he had laid waste so hated. Thecruelty of the Forest Laws, and the torture anddeath they brought upon the peasantry, increasedthis hatred. The poor persecuted country-peoplebelieved that the New Forest was enchanted. Theysaid that in thunder-storms, and on dark nights,demons appeared, moving beneath the branches ofthe gloomy trees. They said that a terrible spec-tre had foretold to Norman hunters that the KedKing should be punished there. And now, in thepleasant season of May, when the Red King hadreigned almost thirteen years ; and a second Princeof the Conquerors blood — another Eichard, theson of Duke Robert — was killed by an arrow inthis dreaded Forest; the people said that the secondtime was not the last, and that there was anotherdeath to come. It was a lonely forest, accursed in the peopleshearts for the wicked deeds that had been done tomake it; and no man, save the King and hi

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