"Oh! that will be nice," cried all the little voices at once. "But how I should like to puzzle papa," added Willie; "I will read history all the morning, when I have done my lessons."
"Very well, my dear; your leisure hours will then be profitably employed, although the motive may be to give papa a difficult subject rather than a love of information on your own part. But here comes papa."
Mr. Macdonald now entered the room amidst the din of little voices, all crying at once, "Do come home early to-morrow, dear papa." "Please do, uncle."
1. Henry II. pulling down the castles erected by Stephen, and discharging the foreign soldiers. A.D. 1154.
2. Richard I. parting with Berengaria, at Messina. A.D. 1189.
3. Death of Richard Coeur de Lion. A.D. 1199.
4. Prince Arthur. A.D. 1199.
5. Battle of Evesham. May 14th, A.D. 1265.