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The Boy Knight

by Henty George Alfred

Health, Mind & Body » Relationships » Interpersonal Relations

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At the beginning of the story we can see a boy, who is living with his mother. Their home is situated in the northern part of England. He learns some information about the outlaws , who are situated in the forest from the government. So, he goes in the wood to let them know about it. Later the boy takes part in the siege of the castle and the main commander of the outlaws promises to take him as a knight.
This book is full of different adventurous stories and any lover of robin hood stories would certainly love it!

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...feeble resistance, and the assailants, led by SirWalter himself, poured over the walls. Now there was a scene of confusion and desperate strife. The baron hadjust gained the top of the stairs, and was engaged in a fierce conflictwith Cnut and his men, when the news reached him that the wall wascarried from without. With an execration he again turned and rushed downthe stairs, hoping by a vigorous effort to cast back the foe. It was, however, all too late; his followers, disheartened and alarmed, fought without method or order in scattered groups of threes and fours. They made their last stand in corners and passages. They knew there wasbut little hope of mercy from the Saxon foresters, and against thesethey fought to the last. To the Norman retainers, however, of the earlthey offered a less determined resistance, throwing down their arms andsurrendering at discretion. The baron, when fiercely fighting, was slain by an arrow from the keepabove, and with his fall the last resistance...