A Boy's RideIt was the last of May in the north of England, in the year 1209. A very different England from what any boy of to-day has seen. A chilly east wind was blowing. The trees of the vast forests were all in leaf but the ash trees, and they were unfolding their buds. And along a bridle-path a few miles southwest of York a lad of fourteen was riding, while behind him followed a handsome deerhound. A boy of fourteen, at that age of the world, was an older and more important personage than he is to-day. If he were well-born he had, generally, by this time, served his time as a page and was become an esquire in the train of some noble lord. That this lad had not done so was because his uncle, a prior in whose charge he had been reared since the early death of his parents, had designed him for a priest. Priest, however, he had declined to be, and his uncle had now permitted him to go forth unattended to attach himself as page to some lord, if he could. |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 5 |
CHAPTER II | 15 |
CHAPTER III | 29 |
CHAPTER IV | 40 |
CHAPTER V | 51 |
CHAPTER VI | 62 |
CHAPTER VII | 73 |
CHAPTER VIII | 84 |
CHAPTER XIV | 143 |
CHAPTER XV | 152 |
CHAPTER XVI | 163 |
CHAPTER XVII | 172 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 182 |
CHAPTER XIX | 191 |
CHAPTER XX | 204 |
CHAPTER XXI | 217 |
CHAPTER IX | 94 |
CHAPTER X | 104 |
CHAPTER XI | 114 |
CHAPTER XII | 123 |
CHAPTER XIII | 132 |
CHAPTER XXII | 227 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 238 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 248 |
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