Comic History of England

aders until 905, when Ethelwold was slain. Even then the restless Danes and frontier settlers were a source of annoyance until about 925, when Edward died; but at his death he was the un

s which made Alfred great. Alfred not only divided up his time into eight-hour shifts,-one for rest, meals, and recreation, one for the affairs of state, and one for study

O THE THRONE AT REGUL

Y THE ROY

t turn back the clock in order to assist an appropriation at the c

g the Welsh, Scots, and Danes. In those days agriculture, trade, and manufacturing were diversions du

fighting clothes of a whole regiment would have been a scant wardrobe for the Greek Slave, and aft

n, at the age of eighteen, succ

guests a robber named Leolf, who had not been invited. Probably he was a pickpocket; and as a royal

in the robber's tresses. There was a mixture of feet, legs, teeth, and features for a moment, and when peace was restore

EDMUND THROWI

t of provincial government over Northumberland, the refractory district, and sent a governor and garrison there to see that the Danes paid att

een the Ethels and the Welsh and Danes, there was little time left in Eng

ot rather corky, and went into the sitting-room to have a chat with his wife, Elgiva, of whom he was very fond, and her mother. St. Dunstan, who had still to make a speech on Foreign Missions with a yard or so of statistics, insisted on Edwy's return. An open outbreak was the result. The Church fell upon the Ki

orm the church, and, though but sixteen years of age when he removed all explosives from the throne and seat

show the Danes how prosperous he was, and

as given out by some of the more modern historians, that the crown was at Mr. Isaac Inestein'

he reader that its redemption was no slight task, w

EDGAR SURMOUNTE

AUSES HIS BARGE TO BE

ride in a row-boat pulled by e

make of itself a target for the mud of its own generation, and no one who rose above the level of his surroundings ever failed to receive the fragrant attentions of those

It is also said that he broke into a convent and carried off a nun; but doubtless if th

ordingly. He suffered also at the hands of those who sought to operate the

nces, by demanding three hundred wolf heads per annum as tribute instead of mo

s a good one. Edgar died at the age of thirty-tw

was a sad dog, and that he sat up late of nights and cut up like everything, but this

for an Anglo-Saxon, and his coon-skin cap

on: EDGAR T