Royal Children of English History

One of Shakespeare's most splendid plays is written about him, and, when you have once read that, you will always remember and love Henry the Fifth as all Englishmen should do.

Some say he was called the Black Prince because he wore black armor, but others say it was because he made himself as great a terror to the French as a black night to foolish children.

So he (King Alfred) learned how to build ships and taught his people how to build them, and that was the beginning of the great English navy, which you ought to be proud of if you are big enough to read this book.

You know that if you were to set out on a journey from one and of England to another, wherever you went, through fields and woods and lanes, you would still be in the kingdom of Queen Victoria.