Richard met them on the way with an armed force, seized the person of the young king, and arrested Lord Rivers. To all appearance Richard treated Edward with respect, and even superintended the preparations for the coronation. Feeling very uneasy at the course events had taken, the queen, for the second time in her life, took refuge with her children in the Sanctuary. She knew that while her second son, Richard, Duke of York, was in safe keeping, it would be useless to take the life of her firstborn. Richard was well aware of this, and set about in his wily way to get the younger brother into his power. He dared not take him by force, for the Sanctuary was regarded as a sacred place of refuge; so he persuaded the Archbishop of Canterbury to go to the queen, and beg her to give up her son, as his brother was very lonely without him. The queen at first resolutely refused to comply with the request, but at last the archbishop became quite angry, chided her for her fears, and said if she did not give him up for a time willingly, she would be compelled to do so by force. Overcome by his arguments, she consented to let him go, and with parting words of love and bitter tears she delivered him to the archbishop. Richard received him with open arms, and promised to be as a father to him. He then took him to the Tower of London, where he was joyfully welcomed by his brother, All this time Richard was acting deceitfully. In less than a month, by wily acts and false stories, he had persuaded the parliament to depose Edward and make him king. The young princes were removed to a gloomy part of the Tower, and kept in close confinement, and from that time they drooped and pined, and at last passed nearly all their hours in tears and mourning. Still, in their misery and fear, they derived hope and strength from the lessons of piety their mother had taught them. They never retired to rest without kneeling in humble prayer to that God who is truly "a refuge in time of trouble." At last Richard sent an express order to the governor of the Tower to murder Edward and the Duke of York, and on Sir Edward Brackenbury refusing to do so, he wrote to him, telling him to deliver up the keys for a night. Brackenbury was forced to obey, and that very night Sir James Tyrrel, accompanied by two ruffians, entered the Tower to execute the wicked crime. When the murderers entered the chamber of the princes, they were so struck with the sight of the innocent children, that they could not refrain from shedding tears; but the feelings of mercy were of short duration. They removed the pillow from under the heads of the innocent slumberers, and pressed it on their faces until they died of suffocation. Sir James Tyrrel then ordered the ruffians to bury the children at the foot of the Tower stairs, under a heap of stones. Two hundred years after the murder of the princes, while some alterations were being made in the Tower, bones were found in a wooden chest, which were thought to be those of Edward the Fifth and his brother. Charles the Second, who then reigned in England, ordered them to be put into a marble 1urn, and interred in the "chapel of Henry the Seventh in Westminster Abbey. A white marble monument marks the place of their interment, and witnesses against the foul crime which deprived two innocent children of their lives. Give an account of the early years of Edward the Fifth. Tell what you know of Caxton. What happened to the prince and his uncle just after the death of his father? How did Richard get the younger brother in his power? What did he do with the young princes? Give an account of their sad end. What became of their remains? war. Wars of the Roses: see lesson "Margaret of Anjou," p. 197. 2 Caxton was born in Kent in 1422. At the age of seventeen he went to Bruges (Flanders), where he acquired the art of printing, probably from Colard Mausion, a well-known printer of that city. 3 arrested, apprehended; seized and detained. 1urn, a kind of vase. 5 chapel of Henry the Seventh, so called because this king caused it to be built. Most of the English monarchs from Henry the Seventh to George the Third are interred in this chapel. LOVE OF COUNTRY. BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, "This is my own, my native land!" From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go mark him well; 3 Despite those titles, power, and pelf, O Caledonia! stern and wild, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, That knits me to thy 'rugged strand! 'strand, shore. 10 Sir Walter Scott. raptures, songs of extreme joy and pleasure. 3 despite, in spite of; notwithstanding. concentred, brought to a common centre; it here means that all his thoughts were centred in himself. 5 6 renown, respect; fame. Caledonia, Scotland. poetic child, one dearly fond of poetry. sires, forefathers. rugged strand, mountainous country and rocky coasts. 10 Sir Walter Scott, author of the Waverley novels and many poems. 7 9 IN a 'Greenland village, one New Year's Day, the thermometer marked only eighteen degrees below zero. This was not considered cold weather for that season, in a country where the mercury some times freezes. A Greenland Village. (p. 250.) Two boys, belonging to the 2 Mission House, were on their way to the village to assist in making a snow house. When they arrived, they found the men busy at work. Blocks of snow, two feet long and six inches wide, were cut and carefully 3pared with thick a large knife. These were built into a dome, the walls of which were very and solid. Inside was one circular room, with a hole in the roof for the escape of the smoke. The entrance to this room was through a hole, which led into an arched passage, about three feet in height. In the dome was placed a window of transparent fresh-water ice. On the sides of the room were a couple of raised platforms, two feet |