Identifier: wanderingheroes00pric (find matches)
Title: Wandering heroes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Price, Lillian Louise, 1865-
Subjects: Heroes
Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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called to
him his little grandson, Clovis, and presented him
with the horse, bidding him, when he should become
a man, grow to be a great warrior, and the leader of
his people. Clovis, then a tall open-faced Frankish
boy, with blue eyes, and hair as yellow as ripe
corn, never missed an opportunity to hear all the
stories the warriors told of Gaul — that fair lordly
land lying to the south, with its rich fields, and its
cities full of treasure.
At length Clovis was grown to be a huge, bearded
man, and a warrior fearless in battle, and he became
chief of the Franks. One summer a great drought
overspread the land of the Franks, and the grass
for the cattle turned yellow and died, while the
streams of water dried up in their beds, and the
sun shone in a sky of brass.
Clovis, on his white horse, had been away from
his people; for two weeks he had been looking for
pasturage, and now, Fredegonde, his little kins-
woman, standing at the door of their mud hut, saw
him riding home. She gave the news of his return
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From the painting by Ary Scheffer.
CLOVIS IN BATTLE.
CLOVIS THE FRANK. 125
to the household ; but Clovis, paying no attention
to the food and welcome offered him, sat aside,
gloomy and silent, looking with sullen eyes upon
his half-starved herds of cattle. He had ridden so
far to the south that he had seen the sunny, waving
corn-fields and the tinkling brooks of northern
Gaul, where the drought had not been so severe,
and the sight had filled him with a desire to pos-
sess this land of plenty for himself.
The next day he sent fleet runners to assemble
all the fighting chiefs of his tribes, and they held
a great council out under the forest trees. Clovis
presided. He told of the riches of Gaul, and urged
that the Franks should all together descend upon
it, and take the land. The younger chiefs were
all with him ; but some of the older ones spoke
cautiously of the strength of Roman arms.
Hildebrand, nephew of Clovis, hiding behind
a tree, heard it all, and running to his sister Frede-
gonde, told her that they were to find a new
living place in the sunny south.

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