Identifier: stnicholasserial71dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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to sendfor me,whatever chance befall them, so long as rnyson is alive, and tell them that I bid them let thelad win his spurs; for I wish, if God so desire,that the day should be his, and the honor thereofremain to him and to those to whom I have givenhim in charge. And there he stayed in the windmill till the bat-tle was over. Soon the cry of victory reached himas the French fled in the darkness, leaving theirdead strewn upon the field. Now the young princp;/appeared covered with all the glory that his fatherhad coveted for him, bearing the ostrich plumewhich he had taken from the dead king of Bohemia.The boy rode up with his visor raised,—his facewas as fair as a girls, and glowed under a crownof golden hair. He bore his trophy aloft, andwhen it was placed as a knightly decoration abovethe crest of his helmet, he little thought that thetriple tuft was to wave for more than five hundredyears, even to this day, on Englands front, for ■879) THE BOY-HEROES OF CRECY AND POITIERS. 67
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EDWARD, THE BLACK PRINCE, IN THE CHARGE AT CRECY. 68 THE BOY-HEROES OF CRECY AND POITIERS. (November, such it does, and that, next to the crown, thereshall be no badge so proudly known as the threefeathers which nod above the coronet of the Princeof Wales. Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria,now wears it because Edward, the Prince of Wales,when still in his teens, won it at Crecy. We willleave him there, and go on ten years. Philip, the French king, had passed away aboutsix years before, and John, a wild character for sucha trying time, had ascended the throne. He wasalways plunging himself into difficulties, and wasoften guilty of cruelty ; and yet was of such a free,generous nature, and had so many of the virtuesof chivalry in that day, that he was known as Johnthe Good. He was the extreme opposite to thegrave, prudent, sagacious Edward III., who wasstill alive and well, and king of England. Some time after the victory of Crecy, Calais hadbeen taken, and then both nations were glad

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