8. He could translate Greek when he was only thirteen years old.
9. Even as a little boy he said: I intend to become a poet.
10. He wrote plays and he read the plays of Shakespeare in English.
11. As a boy he studied the piano and was fond of the music of Von Weber.
12. Among the books that Richard Wagner read as a boy were the story of Die Meistersinger and the story of Tannhäuser.
13. He always kept these stories in mind.
14. When he became a composer he wrote an opera upon each of these stories.
15. Tell something about Wagner and animals.
16. Richard Wagner died at Venice on Feb. 13, 1883.