The King And The Child

King Frederick VI. of Denmark, while traveling through Jutland, one day cntored a villuge scliool and found ! tho childrcn lively and intelligent and quite ready to answer ins questions. "Well, young.-sters," he said, "what i ar the names of tho greatest kings of Denmark?" With one accord they cried out: "Canute the Great, Waldemar, and Christian IV." Just then a little girl to whom the schoolmaster had whispered something stood up and raised her hand. "Doyou know another?" asked the king. "Yes-Frederick VI." "What great aet did lie perforin?" The girl luing her head and stauinicred out: -'I don't knowr." "Be comforted, my child," said the