Bill Rozmiarek, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team.
One of the best things to be said of the stories in this volume isthat, although they are not biographical, they are about real personswho actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama of theworld's history. Some of these persons were more famous than others,yet all have left enduring "footprints on the sands of time" and theirnames will not cease to be remembered. In each of the stories thereis a basis of truth and an ethical lesson which cannot fail to havea wholesome influence; and each possesses elements of interest which,it is believed, will go far towards proving the fallibility of thedoctrine that children find delight only in tales of the imaginativeand unreal. The fact that there are a few more than fifty famous peoplementioned in the volume may be credited to the author's wish to givegood measure.
One day in spring four men were riding on horseback along a countryroad. These men were lawyers, and they were going to the next town toattend court.
There had been a rain, and the ground was very soft. Water was drippingfrom the trees, and the