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The Prince and The Pauper

CHAPTER III
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Before he knew what he was about, he had his face against the gate-bars.

The next instant one of the soldiers snatched him rudely away, and sent him spinning among the gaping crowd of country gawks and London idlers.

The soldier said,-- "Mind thy manners, thou young beggar!" The crowd jeered and laughed; but the young prince sprang to the gate with his face flushed, and his eyes flashing with indignation, and cried out,-- "How dar'st thou use a poor lad like that?
How dar'st thou use the King my father's meanest subject so?
Open the gates, and let him in!" You should have seen that fickle crowd snatch off their hats then.

You should have heard them cheer, and shout, "Long live the Prince of Wales!" The soldiers presented arms with their halberds, opened the gates, and presented again as the little Prince of Poverty passed in, in his fluttering rags, to join hands with the Prince of Limitless Plenty.
Edward Tudor said-- "Thou lookest tired and hungry: thou'st been treated ill.

Come with me." Half a dozen attendants sprang forward to--I don't know what; interfere, no doubt.


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