One of the highly monil poems in .llr. Belloc's "Ccwtinnm·y tales for Chilrlr£1;" is cal/eel '·Cfiarles A uyvstvs l;''(Jr/e::ciie'' and rm1s:
The nicest child I eYer !mew Was Charles A ugusLus Fortescue He nernr lost his cap, or tore His stockings or his pinafore:
In eating Bread. he made no crumbs, He was extremely fond of sums, For which, however. he preferred The Parsing of a Latin Word.
He sought, when it was in his power, For information twice an !Jour.
And as for finding Mutton-Fat Unappetising, far from that!
He often at his Father's Board, Would beg them of his own accord, To give him if they did not mind, The Greasiest Morsels they could find.
His later years did not belie The Promise of his Infancy:
In Public life he alwa~·s tried To take a judgment Broad and wide:
In Prh·ate, none was more than he Renowned for quiet coHrtesy.
He rose at once in his Career, And long before his fortieth year Had wedded Fili, only Child Of Bunyan, First Lord Alberlyde.
He thus became immensely Rich, And built the splendid l\Iansion which Is called "The Cedars, Muswell Hill"
Where he resides in Affluence still To show what Everybody might.
Become by Simply Doing Right.
TV!i1' did Emperor Cltarlcs pass !tis last da)'S 111 a /lfonasfcrJ' lo prepa1e .for death.
BE you do not find this story in great books of Gen- eral History of Europe.
Those who write history write ordi-·
11.arily very little about the prepa- ration for death of a king or an em- peror .... they are more interested in their glorious life than in their com- 111o;1 de::ith .... and yet ... ought not man's lire, be he a beggar or ~
prince, be a continual preparation for death? eternity?
So in r 555 Emperor Charles who dominated half of Europe and half of America gave up his armies, and his palaces, and he joined the ranks of poor monks in a dark monastery of Spain. 'Why? Let me tell you.
In 1550 Andes Doria, the Em- peror's great-admiral, drove the Freach out of Corsica. Now this was not done without a fight and a fight between soldiers ;.;eans woun- ded and dead. So it happened that General Ylakrol, "el Flamingo" as Doria called him, who was mariner
ou the imperial fleet an<l formerly a peaceful boy and citizen of Lis- seweghe in Belgium, was shot to pieces by the French on the very admiralship.
The sad news was brought to Lisse\\'eghe and mother Makrol was so sorry at the death of her son that she became seriously sick and died nine days later in her bed.
She died and she left an orphan boy ... eleven years old ... Pat.. ..
otherwise: Pattie.
But Doria sent a letter to the Flemish Emperor in which he praised ' el flamingo'', pitied his or- phan and asked on account of the first some assistance for the second:
Pattie.
Can you believe it? The Empe- ror wrote with his own hand and i11 golden letters the name of Gerard Makrol on a big ledgerof honor, ordered a marble slab for the grave of mother Makrol and invited young master '' Jyrakrol Patricius'' to come
to Brussels and li\·e at the court of the Emperor as page of the crown.
The pastor of Lisseweghe wrote a nice letter to the Emperor to thank His Majesty, to thank him, yes, in the name of the parish, to thank him for all the honor bestow- ed upon the Yillage in the person of Patricius Makrol. .... i.e. Pattie.
Before he left for Brussels, Pattie went to the old curate of his village to ask his blessing.· And he re- cei\·ed that blessing he asked for and also a sermon he had not a"k- ed for.
''Pattie'' said the venerable priest, ''my dear Pattie, you go thus to the p:ilace of the Emperor ...
the good Emperor Charles. Be good, my boy, be always virtuous and christian .... Yon are clever e- nough .... too much even. (Did the Pastor here remember how his yel- low pears had disappeared last sum- mer and a big hole had appeared on the same day in the fence a- round his garden? The chronicle does not mention it.) For you are the son of Gem.rd Makrol. ... who Ii \·ed thirty years on tlie water of the sea. And you know that "salty is the wa[er of the sea and cle\·er the man who sail on its wa \·es"! ... . And you ha \·e a cle\·er tongue too .. . wasn't your grandfather forty years the barber of the parish? And wasn't your grandmother a long time the best laundrv\voman of the village? But. Patti~. listen now to my \\·ords of advice and remember them always: all things on earth are vanity, sand and water and van- ity! Of course when over there at the palace they put something good
Cum iicentia
under your nose, don't refuse it ....
for the good of ?Our stomach and humanity, but for your soul, that too is sand and \Yater and yanity1 •••
Say, Pattie, when you are at the p:ilace will you remember this? ...
and li\·e accordingly? ... Yes? ... \\'ell, that is the greatest happi1:ess! ...
Bye, bye Pattie! ... "
And with his old long bony fin- gers, the good shepherd made a cross 0:1 Pattie's forehead and ca- ressed his curly hair. ....
"And before you go, Pattie, wouldn't you drink a glass of \\·ine ... with a piece of a cake?"
"\Vell, .... yes," said Pattie .... "I will, for the good of my stomach and ... humanity ... ''
\Vhen Pattie left the parsonage, a group of people had assembled in front to say farewell to the honor of Lisseweghe. The President said that Pattie was an immortal honor of the \·illage. Farmer Pete said he was glad to see Pattie off, for there would be a ::aughty fellow less on the street; and the three little friends of Pattie; Dorie, Johnie and Lewis said just nothing. for Dorie was only too jealous of Pattie, Johnie was sobbing aloud because his mother cried aloud and Lewis was too busy with a little baby 011
his hip, his youngest sister, who cried with mouth and lm:gs and throat with a full grown lady's power. .. "Adieu" said Pattie, ''I am going to Brussels'' and he jumped into the miller's arms who lifted him up, placed him in his two- wheel-car under the white cover, and off went Pattie ... for Brussels.
(To be continued.)
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