[Gutenberg 7806] • A Boy's Ride
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- Authors
- Zollinger, Gulielma
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com
- Tags
- great britain -- history -- medieval period , 1066-1485 -- juvenile fiction
- ISBN
- 9781437864533
- Date
- 1909-09-18T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.16 MB
- Lang
- en
It 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.