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" Poor thing ! " said Bruce : " you , too , know what it is to fail . " But the spider did not lose hope with the sixth failure . With still more care , she made ready to try for the seventh time . Bruce almost forgot his own troubles as he watched her swing herself out upon the slender line . Would she fail again ? No ! The thread was carried safely to the beam , and fastened there . " I , too , will try a seventh time ! " cried Bruce . He arose and called his men together . He told them of his plans , and sent them out with messages of cheer to his disheartened people . Soon there was an army of brave Scotchmen around him . Another battle was fought , and the King of England was glad to go back into his own country . I have heard it said , that , after that day , no one by the name of Bruce would ever hurt a spider . The lesson which the little creature had taught the king was never forgotten . THE BLACK DOUGLAS . In Scotland , in the time of King Robert Bruce , there lived a brave man whose name was Douglas . His hair and beard were black and long , and his face was tanned and dark ; and for this reason people nicknamed him the Black Douglas . He was a good friend of the king , and one of his strongest helpers . In the war with the English , who were trying to drive Bruce from Scotland , the Black Douglas did many brave deeds ; and the English people became very much afraid of him . By and by the fear of him spread all through the land . Nothing could frighten an English lad more than to tell him that the Black Douglas was not far away . Women would tell their children , when they were naughty , that the Black Douglas would get them ; and this would make them very quiet and good . There was a large castle in Scotland which the English had taken early in the war . The Scottish soldiers wanted very much to take it again , and the Black Douglas and his men went one day to see what they could do . It happened to be a holiday , and most of the English soldiers in the castle were eating and drinking and having a merry time . But they had left watchmen on the wall to see that the Scottish soldiers did not come upon them unawares ; and so they felt quite safe . In the evening , when it was growing dark , the wife of one of the soldiers went up on the wall with her child in her arms . As she looked over into the fields below the castle , she saw some dark objects moving toward the foot of the wall . In the dusk she could not make out what they were , and so she pointed them out to one of the watchmen .
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