You shall have money to buy a larger house
and to send your boys to school. Here is my hand to kiss." Then he
turned to the cardinal and said, "Now, I am ready. Let us go."
Not dressed in that way?" said the cardinal. He had just noticed that
the king was wearing poor Charlot's Sunday suit instead of his own.
"Why not?" answered the little king.
"Think what your mother would say if she saw you in the clothes of a
poor man's son." said the cardinal. "Think of what all the fine ladies
would say."
"Let them say what they please, I am not going to change my clothes."
As the little king went out, he turned at the door and called to
Charlot. "Come to the palace to-morrow," he said, "and you shall have
your clothes. You may bring mine with you."
Louis the Fourteenth became king of France when he was only five years
old. He was called "the Fourteenth" because there had been thirteen
other kings before him who bore the name of Louis. In history he is
often called the Grand Monarch.
WHICH WAS THE KING?
One day King Henry the Fourth of France was hunting in a large forest.
Towards evening he told his men to ride home by the main road while
he went by another way that was somewhat longer.
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