Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . ish general, toward his dying foe,was worthy of a great and noble knight. He bade his own pavilion to bespread above him ; cushions were placed beneath his head ; and a friar wasbrought, to whom he breathed his last confession. As he was uttering the finalwords, his voice faltered, and his head fell The friar looked upon his face—andsaw that all was over. GUSTAVUS VASA* By Charles F. Hornb(1496-1560) gT-T^j^fcTT^HREE or four hundred years ago the
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . ish general, toward his dying foe,was worthy of a great and noble knight. He bade his own pavilion to bespread above him ; cushions were placed beneath his head ; and a friar wasbrought, to whom he breathed his last confession. As he was uttering the finalwords, his voice faltered, and his head fell The friar looked upon his face—andsaw that all was over. GUSTAVUS VASA* By Charles F. Hornb(1496-1560) gT-T^j^fcTT^HREE or four hundred years ago the little country of Denmark was of^^^1^4^ ^^h greater importance than it is to-day. It had the mightiest^);j^f»l^^ navy in the world, and its rule over the seas was undisputed. Its^••ij^!*^ appearance on the map was also very different then, for it not onlyfctiK^^isS extended over much of the German territory now surrounding it,but also held all Norway as a province. Sweden, too, though often rebelling,and being punished with terrible cruelty, was, up to the year 1523, a dependencyof the Danish crown. • Copyright, 1894. by Selmar 154 WORKMEN AND HEROES Naturally the Danes rather looked down on the conquered Swedes, and madethem the subject of many rude jests and taunts. There was in the beginning ofthe sixteenth century at the great Danish university at Upsala a Swedish boy, who with the rest of his countrymen must havesuffered many such insults. His proud, brave,little heart rebelled against this treatment; andone day, when his teacher had driven him be-yond endurance with his severe punishments andbitter sneers, the boy snatched out his little swordand plunged it straight through the masters book. I will teach you something, too, he cried; teach you that the Swedes are no cowards, forsome day I will gather them together and treatevery Dane in Sweden as I do your he rushed out of the school, never to re-turn. Many lads have, in some moment of passion m
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