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One day when they were with their mother , she showed them a wonderful book that some rich friend had given her . She turned the leaves and showed them the strange letters . She showed them the beautiful pictures , and told them how they had been drawn and painted . They admired the book very much , for they had never seen anything like it . " But the best part of it is the story which it tells , " said their mother . " If you could only read , you might learn that story and enjoy it . Now I have a mind to give this book to one of you " " Will you give it to me , mother ? " asked little Alfred . " I will give it to the one who first learns to read in it " she answered . " I am sure I would rather have a good bow with arrows " said Ethelred . " And I would rather have a young hawk that has been trained to hunt " said Ethelbert . " If I were a priest or a monk " said Ethelbald , " I would learn to read . But I am a prince , and it is foolish for princes to waste their time with such things . " " But I should like to know the story which this book tells , " said Alfred . II A few weeks passed by . Then , one morning , Alfred went into his mother's room with a smiling , joyous face . " Mother , " he said , " will you let me see that beautiful book again ? " His mother unlocked her cabinet and took the precious volume from its place of safe keeping . Alfred opened it with careful fingers . Then he began with the first word on the first page and read the first story aloud without making one mistake . " O my child , how did you learn to do that ? " cried his mother . " I asked the monk , Brother Felix , to teach me , " said Alfred . " And every day since you showed me the book , he has given me a lesson . It was no easy thing to learn these letters and how they are put together to make words . Now , Brother Felix says I can read almost as well as he . " " How wonderful ! " said his mother . " How foolish ! " said Ethelbald . " You will be a good monk when you grow up , " said Ethelred , with a sneer . But his mother kissed him and gave him the beautiful book . " The prize is yours , Alfred , " she said . " I am sure that whether you grow up to be a monk or a king , you will be a wise and noble man . " And Alfred did grow up to become the wisest and noblest king that England ever had . In history he is called Alfred the Great . " READ , AND YOU WILL KNOW " " Mother , what are the clouds made of ? Why does the rain fall ? Where does all the rain water go ? What good does it do ? " Little William Jones was always asking questions . " I want to know , " he said ; " I want to know everything . " At first his mother tried to answer all his questions . But after he had learned to read , she taught him to look in books for that which he wished to know . " Mother , what makes the wind blow ? "
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