THE GREAT MAN.
WRITTEN FOR VERY YOUNG READERS.
I will tell you a tale of a great man who loved justice.
He had two sons whom he also loved.
Now, he had himself made a law, that whoever sought to harm the peace of the country where he lived, should die.
There was a sad cabal against the peace of the country soon after the law was made:
And the great man’s two dear sons were at the head of this wicked party. Their names were in the list of bad men.
This great man loved justice more than he loved his two sons.
He, therefore, made firm his heart, and sat upon his rich throne, and gave the word that his two sons should be brought before him;
And he passed sentence on them, as he would have done on strangers: