. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. valor f the chivalrous campaigns of Em ward III. and his son, the Black Prince, in Normandy. At < rccy, the k Prince, whm only sixteen years of age, led the English army to tv, and slew the King of Bohemia with his own hand. Kin I ird watched this battle from .1 windmill on a hill. The nch army was many times larger than the English. The Prince during the battle found himself hard pressed, and at one point the Karl of Warwii k sent to the king for assistai UPPER NORMANDY. 227 Is my son killed ? No, sire, said the messenger. I
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. valor f the chivalrous campaigns of Em ward III. and his son, the Black Prince, in Normandy. At < rccy, the k Prince, whm only sixteen years of age, led the English army to tv, and slew the King of Bohemia with his own hand. Kin I ird watched this battle from .1 windmill on a hill. The nch army was many times larger than the English. The Prince during the battle found himself hard pressed, and at one point the Karl of Warwii k sent to the king for assistai UPPER NORMANDY. 227 Is my son killed ? No, sire, said the messenger. Is he wounded ? No, sire. Is he thrown to the ground? No, but he is hard-pressed. Then, said the king, I shall send no aid. I have set my heartupon his proving himself a brave knight, and I am resolved that thevictory shall be due to his own valor. In 1356, in another campaign in Normandy, the Black Prince won amost brilliant victory at Poitiers, and captured the French King latter was a brave soldier, and fought with his battle-axe until all 1. CAPTURE OF KING JOHN AND HIS SON. VS, OJt, VACATIONS IN H/STOXH LANDS. the nobles had forsaken him. [*he Black Prince made a supper for him in his tent in the evening, and waited upon him at the table with his own hands. The Black Prince and the captive king rode through gether, the former in great pomp, and the latter on a cream] ?red pony by hi> side. All of these things read prettily in historyjbat one is glad that the time is past when war was the game of Icings]and armies were used as their playthings. A sen - . rides near the cool sea brought the Class to the old fishing villa. Etretat, now a fashionable summer resort for FrencH artists, and a popular bathing-place for those desiring seclusion amidthe i mery. It is situated amid rocks which the sea has exca- vated into arches, aiguilles, and other fantastic recesses and caverns,Its pretty chalets and villas on the hills, is gayly-dressed summeridler>, its groups i fi
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