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9. Did any of them take refuge in our country?

10. What is the character of their descendants?

Please to get some friend to ask you these ten questions, and when you have replied to them correctly, lay up the knowledge in your memory. For it is a part of history, and therefore worthy to be remembered.

The tale which I am now going to write for you is historical. It was first related, more than a hundred years ago. The boy who asked it of his venerable grandfather, took a low seat by his knee, and gazed up affectionately in his face.

"Just so, my dear boy, said the kind old gentleman, did I solicit stories from