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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
her pocket she wrote her name and ad
dress very clearly and held out the paper
to the boy, who had moved nearer and
watched her with much interest. He
looked at the paper, but said with an odd
smile. "That is verv well, but I cannot
read it." Dorothy felt a, little hurt.
"Isn't it written clearly?" she asked,
mindful of various admonitions she had
received concerning her penmanship.
"I do not know how to write," he said,
calmlv. not at all as though he was
ashamed of his ignorance, and added as
he noticed her surprised face, "The King
of France himself is no scholar, but I
may learn writing some day if I have the
time."
"Do you have to work hard?" asked
Dorothy, sympathetically. "Yes," an
swered the boy. "There is so much to
do, you know. I practice riding every
day, both with and without armor, and
there are all the tricks of the sword and
and lance to learn, besides shooting with
the long bow. Then I must ride about
my land very often to see what my vas
sals are about, though since Val-es-dunes
they have given me little trouble." He
frowned as he spoke, and his boyish face
grew stern as a man's, while his jaws
shut grimly together.
Dorothy watched him, fascinated.
"King of France," "vassals," "armor"
who could he be ? "Will you please tell
me where I am,". she faltered, "and who
you are yourself?" He smiled on her
once more. "This is my castle of llouen,"
he said, "and I am William, Duke of
Normandy."
Dorothy gasped a little. So she had
reached the Land of Long Ago, after all.
"Have you ever been in England?"
she asked.
"No," he replied, "but the King of
England was in Normandy a long time,
after Cnut seized the kingdom."
"Is his name Edward?" pursued Do
rothy. "Yes, Edward the Confessor, they call
him. He is much older than I."
"Yes, I remember," said Dorothy, quite
at her ease now. "And Earl Godwin, do
you know him ?"
"By name," said William, looking at
her with surprise. "He has a son, Earl
Harold, whom I would like right well to
see."
"You will see him more than once,"
pronounced Dorothy, oracularly. "I am
afraid you treated him pretty meanly
about swearing on those bones of the
saints. Not that I should care for such
things myself," she added with the scorn
of her Puritan ancestry and a reckless
disregard of the fact that the boy William
was probably quite unacquainted with
deeds of the man William. Disregarding
his look of bewilderment she went on
fully possessed of her historical knowl
edge. "After your archers shot Harold at
Hastings you were crowned in the Abbey
and trembled for the only time in your
life when the people all ran out and left
you alone."
"Trembled !" exclaimed William, fierce
ly. "You are a strange child," he went
on, more calmly. "But now you have
crowned me, it remains to marry me and
to bury me." He ended half laughingly,
half scornfully.
"Marry ? O, yes !" responded Dorothy,
promptly, "you married Matilda, of Flan
ders.
The bov's face flushed and paled. "Ma
tilda the Fair," he said, softly.
"Yes," continued Dorothy, "and the
King of France insulted you."
"That is likelv enough," muttered
William.
"And you were thrown from your
horse, making war on him, and died soon
after, and were buried buried where
were you buried?"
There was no reply, and as Dorothy
looked up the face of her companion
seemed strangely indistinct and, before
she could speak again, the thick white
mist which had closed upon her before
enfolded her a second time.
Hoy Inventors.
It may not be generally known that
many of our greatest inventors began
their work when mere lads in their early
teens. Marconi, the famous inventor of
wireless telegraphy, was but 14 when lie
set up his first crude apparatus, in which
tin biscuit boxes held important places.
At 16 Samuel Compton began work on
the spinning mule, which he perfected
before he was 19. Eli Whitney conceived
the idea for the cotton-gin when he was
only 13. Sir John Brown was a lad of
16 when he invented in his mind the con
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rich in later years.
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But his wife she got there first,
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Went on the ice, went on the ice,
It was so slippery that they fell,
And now they're blind and lame as well.
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Why do you come so soon?
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