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The
woman
returned
in
time
to
save
the
breakfast
from
entire
destruction
;
and
she
promptly
brought
the
King
out
of
his
dreams
with
a
brisk
and
cordial
tongue-lashing
.
Then
,
seeing
how
troubled
he
was
over
his
violated
trust
,
she
softened
at
once
,
and
was
all
goodness
and
gentleness
toward
him
.
The
boy
made
a
hearty
and
satisfying
meal
,
and
was
greatly
refreshed
and
gladdened
by
it
.
It
was
a
meal
which
was
distinguished
by
this
curious
feature
,
that
rank
was
waived
on
both
sides
;
yet
neither
recipient
of
the
favour
was
aware
that
it
had
been
extended
.
The
goodwife
had
intended
to
feed
this
young
tramp
with
broken
victuals
in
a
corner
,
like
any
other
tramp
or
like
a
dog
;
but
she
was
so
remorseful
for
the
scolding
she
had
given
him
,
that
she
did
what
she
could
to
atone
for
it
by
allowing
him
to
sit
at
the
family
table
and
eat
with
his
betters
,
on
ostensible
terms
of
equality
with
them
;
and
the
King
,
on
his
side
,
was
so
remorseful
for
having
broken
his
trust
,
after
the
family
had
been
so
kind
to
him
,
that
he
forced
himself
to
atone
for
it
by
humbling
himself
to
the
family
level
,
instead
of
requiring
the
woman
and
her
children
to
stand
and
wait
upon
him
,
while
he
occupied
their
table
in
the
solitary
state
due
to
his
birth
and
dignity
.
It
does
us
all
good
to
unbend
sometimes
.
This
good
woman
was
made
happy
all
the
day
long
by
the
applauses
which
she
got
out
of
herself
for
her
magnanimous
condescension
to
a
tramp
;
and
the
King
was
just
as
self-complacent
over
his
gracious
humility
toward
a
humble
peasant
woman
.
"
When
breakfast
was
over
,
the
housewife
told
the
King
to
wash
up
the
dishes
.
This
command
was
a
staggerer
,
for
a
moment
,
and
the
King
came
near
rebelling
;
but
then
he
said
to
himself
,
"
Alfred
the
Great
watched
the
cakes
;
doubtless
he
would
have
washed
the
dishes
too
--
therefore
will
I
essay
it
.
"
He
made
a
sufficiently
poor
job
of
it
;
and
to
his
surprise
too
,
for
the
cleaning
of
wooden
spoons
and
trenchers
had
seemed
an
easy
thing
to
do
.
It
was
a
tedious
and
troublesome
piece
of
work
,
but
he
finished
it
at
last
.
He
was
becoming
impatient
to
get
away
on
his
journey
now
;
however
,
he
was
not
to
lose
this
thrifty
dame
's
society
so
easily
.
She
furnished
him
some
little
odds
and
ends
of
employment
,
which
he
got
through
with
after
a
fair
fashion
and
with
some
credit
.
Then
she
set
him
and
the
little
girls
to
paring
some
winter
apples
;
but
he
was
so
awkward
at
this
service
that
she
retired
him
from
it
and
gave
him
a
butcher
knife
to
grind
.
Afterwards
she
kept
him
carding
wool
until
he
began
to
think
he
had
laid
the
good
King
Alfred
about
far
enough
in
the
shade
for
the
present
in
the
matter
of
showy
menial
heroisms
that
would
read
picturesquely
in
story-books
and
histories
,
and
so
he
was
half-minded
to
resign
.
And
when
,
just
after
the
noonday
dinner
,
the
goodwife
gave
him
a
basket
of
kittens
to
drown
,
he
did
resign
.
At
least
he
was
just
going
to
resign
--
for
he
felt
that
he
must
draw
the
line
somewhere
,
and
it
seemed
to
him
that
to
draw
it
at
kitten-drowning
was
about
the
right
thing
--
when
there
was
an
interruption
The
interruption
was
John
Canty
--
with
a
peddler
's
pack
on
his
back
--
and
Hugo
.
The
King
discovered
these
rascals
approaching
the
front
gate
before
they
had
had
a
chance
to
see
him
;
so
he
said
nothing
about
drawing
the
line
,
but
took
up
his
basket
of
kittens
and
stepped
quietly
out
the
back
way
,
without
a
word
.
He
left
the
creatures
in
an
out-house
,
and
hurried
on
,
into
a
narrow
lane
at
the
rear
.
The
high
hedge
hid
him
from
the
house
,
now
;
and
so
,
under
the
impulse
of
a
deadly
fright
,
he
let
out
all
his
forces
and
sped
toward
a
wood
in
the
distance
.
He
never
looked
back
until
he
had
almost
gained
the
shelter
of
the
forest
;
then
he
turned
and
descried
two
figures
in
the
distance
.
That
was
sufficient
;
he
did
not
wait
to
scan
them
critically
,
but
hurried
on
,
and
never
abated
his
pace
till
he
was
far
within
the
twilight
depths
of
the
wood
.
Then
he
stopped
;
being
persuaded
that
he
was
now
tolerably
safe
.
He
listened
intently
,
but
the
stillness
was
profound
and
solemn
--
awful
,
even
,
and
depressing
to
the
spirits
.
At
wide
intervals
his
straining
ear
did
detect
sounds
,
but
they
were
so
remote
,
and
hollow
,
and
mysterious
,
that
they
seemed
not
to
be
real
sounds
,
but
only
the
moaning
and
complaining
ghosts
of
departed
ones
.
So
the
sounds
were
yet
more
dreary
than
the
silence
which
they
interrupted
.
It
was
his
purpose
,
in
the
beginning
,
to
stay
where
he
was
the
rest
of
the
day
;
but
a
chill
soon
invaded
his
perspiring
body
,
and
he
was
at
last
obliged
to
resume
movement
in
order
to
get
warm
.
He
struck
straight
through
the
forest
,
hoping
to
pierce
to
a
road
presently
,
but
he
was
disappointed
in
this
.
He
travelled
on
and
on
;
but
the
farther
he
went
,
the
denser
the
wood
became
,
apparently
.
The
gloom
began
to
thicken
,
by-and-by
,
and
the
King
realised
that
the
night
was
coming
on
.
It
made
him
shudder
to
think
of
spending
it
in
such
an
uncanny
place
;
so
he
tried
to
hurry
faster
,
but
he
only
made
the
less
speed
,
for
he
could
not
now
see
well
enough
to
choose
his
steps
judiciously
;
consequently
he
kept
tripping
over
roots
and
tangling
himself
in
vines
and
briers
.
