Part 101 (1/2)

WHILE MOTHER WAS AWAY

The Princess of Wales has trained her children so carefully in habits of obedience and veracity that they are hness started on her trip round the world with her husband, she drew up a list of rules to be observed in the nursery, and added a series of light tasks to be fullfilled by each one of the youngsters before the date set for her return

The rules were to be enforced by the nurses The performance of the tasks was left to the honor of the children, and in addition there was a list of things they must not do

There were occasional lapses of s, and so out the tasks, for royal children, despite the severity of their training, are children still But in the main they respected their e of her absence Upon one occasion, however, they were sorely terand box of bonbons But when the sweets were offered to them, one child after another reluctantly but firmly declined to take any

”We like them, but mother has forbidden us to eat thear-pluent queen ”I will tell mama all about it when she returns”

Prince Eddie wavered momentarily, then reiterated his refusal

”We'd like thehed, ”but that's what htly annoyed by this opposition

”But if I say you round, a hero between two fires--the wishes of his adored randmother

His sister and his brothers followed his lead When the queen went away she put the bonbons on the nursery table and there they stayed for hness of the princess' training and the respectful love and devotion of her children

--_The Youth's Companion_

1400

Better the child should cry than the h

--_Danish_

1401

THE DARING OF A MOTHER

In Scotland a peasant woman had a child a feeeks old, which was seized by one of the golden eagles, the largest in the country, and borne away in its talons to its lofty eyrie on one of the most inaccessible cliffs of Scotland's bleak hills; theher loss, hurried in alar whom the alarm spread, rushed out to her aid; they all came to the foot of the tremendous precipice; the peasants were anxious to risk their lives in order to recover the little infant; but hoas the crag to be reached? One peasant tried to clied to return; another tried and came down injured; a third tried, and one after another failed, till a universal feeling of despair and deep sorrow fell upon the crowd as they gazed upon the eyrie where the infant lay At last a woetting over one rock and then another, and while every heart trembled with alarm, to the a, and clasp the infant rejoicingly in her bosoan to descend the perilous steep with her child; ht that her next step would precipitate her and dash her to pieces, they saw her at length reach the ground with the child safe in her arms Who was this female? Why did she succeed when others failed? It was The Mother of The Child

--_cu_

1402

FUNERAL OF A MOTHER

The Rev George Crabbe when describing the funeral of ”The Mother,” in his passing glance at the half-interested spectators, says:--

Curious and sad, upon the fresh-dug hill The village lads stood, melancholy still