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Läsebok. X:o 63—64.

which they could not comprehend. As they talked prettv
loud, a young officer, who stood by the fire, heard their
conference, and begged leave to look at the passage. »Oh!»
said Pope sarcastically, »bv all means, pray, let the young
gentleman look at it». Upon which the officer took the book,
and, considering a while, said there wanted only a note of
interrogation to make the whole intelligible. »And pray, sir»,
said Pope, piqued perhaps at being outdone by a red coat,
»what is a note of interrogation?» »A note of interrogation»,
replied the youth, with a look of utmost contempt, »is a little
crooked thing that asks questions». (It must be remembered
that Pope was a little crooked, deformed man.)

67. Generosity.

Sir Philip Sidney, at the battle near Zutphen, was
wounded by a musket-ball, which broke the bone of his thigh.
He was carried about a mile and a half, to the camp; and
being faint with the loss of blood, and probably parched with
thirst, through the heat of the weather, he called for drink.
It was immediately brought to him: but as he was putting
the vessel to his mouth, a poor wounded soldier, who
happened at that instant to be carried by him, looked up to it
with wistful eves. The gallant and generous Sidney took the

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bottle from his mouth, and delivered it to the soldier, saving,
»Thy necessity is yet greater than mine».

68. The Quaker and the Young- Man.

A Quaker driving in a single-horse chaise happened to
meet a voung man who was also in a single-horse chaise.
There was not room enough for them to pass each other,
unless one of them would back his carriage, which they both
refused. »I will not make way for you», said the young
man, »no, I will not». — I think I am older than thou art,
»said the Quaker, »and therefore have a right to expect thee
to make way for me». »1 will not», resumed the first. He
then pulled out a newspaper and began to read. The
Quaker, observing him, pulled out his pipe and some tobacco
from his pocket, struck a light, illuminated his pipe, and
puffed away very comfortably. »Friend», said he, »when
thou hast read the paper, I should be glad if thou wouldst
lend it me».

69. Robin Hood.

The famous Robin Hood, whose real name was Robert
Fitzooth, lived in the reigns of Henry the Second and
Richard the First. He was born in the town of Locksley in

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