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Title: In happy far-away land
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Gardiner, Ruth Kimball, 1872-1924 Kimball, Frances Palmer
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Publisher: New York, Zimmerman's
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and served the Queen and her ladies, running errands, waiting at table,singing songs, and learning to be polite, gentle and obedient. When he was fourteen years old the King made him a squire, and fromthat time forth it was hisduty to serve the knights,learning all the things a trueknight needs to know—to befearless, to speak the truth, todefend the ricrht, to be kind O to the weak, and to protectthe helpless. There were many squiresat Kino; Williams Court when O Tom first went there, but oneafter another they rode forthfrom the castle gates and per-formed such noble deeds thatthe King made them knightsand gave them the goldenspurs and white mantle ofknighthood. O At last there were nosquires left but Tom and an-other who was named Alberic.Alberic was a very proud and haughtyboy, who was always boasting of themighty deeds he meant to do when theKing should send him out to prove himselfworthy to be a knight—the fierce dragons he wasto slay, the lovely maidens he was to rescue from
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THE WHITE KNIGHT 45 all manner of dangers, and the robbers he was to capture. He was alwayssaying that he meant to be the Kings favorite and bravest knight, and tosit always at his right hand. Tom always listened to what Alberic had to say,for he was a very polite boy, but he never spoke of what he meant to do,

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