Young people's history of England . -^g ^ycnt iuto a hut, in disguise, to elude hisenemies. While there, the poor woman who lived in thehut asked him to watch some cakes which were frying inthe fireplace, while she went out. But so absorbed be-came Alfred in mending his bows and arrows, that thecakes altogether escaped his mind. When the womanreturned she found the cakes all burned and did not know that her guest was the king ; and shegrew very angry, and exclaimed that he was ready enoughto eat the cakes, but was too lazy to watch them. While Alfred was hiding, his generals were n
Young people's history of England . -^g ^ycnt iuto a hut, in disguise, to elude hisenemies. While there, the poor woman who lived in thehut asked him to watch some cakes which were frying inthe fireplace, while she went out. But so absorbed be-came Alfred in mending his bows and arrows, that thecakes altogether escaped his mind. When the womanreturned she found the cakes all burned and did not know that her guest was the king ; and shegrew very angry, and exclaimed that he was ready enoughto eat the cakes, but was too lazy to watch them. While Alfred was hiding, his generals were not idle; and in no long time he was able to leave his retreat, and once more put himself at the head of his army. He He reap- ^ -^ pears in marchcd againstthe Danes, inflicted upon them asevere defeat, and drove them back to their strong-. KING AI>i KKD AND THE CAKES. — Page 22. THE EARLY ENGLISH KINGS. 23 holds on the sea-coast. He pressed them so hard that theywere at last forced to surrender; and he persuaded Gorm,the Danish chief, and his men, to renounce their paganfaith and be baptized as Christians. The Danes Makes peace -with were too strong and numerous to be entirely the Danes,driven out of the island ; and so Alfred made peace withthem, and gave up to Gorm the kingdom of East Anglia andthe northern part of the Marchland. The Danes also ruledin Yorkshire. So near akin were they to the English thatthey mingled with thejn, gradually adopted their laws andcustoms, and from having been rovers and pirates, settleddown into peaceable farmers and shepherds. For a whilethere was tranquillity in England. The , taught inarts, trades, and learning by the monks, who in manyparts of the country were gathered in large monasteries,became more and more one people, and advanced incivilization under their wise and
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