Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — “Be Comforted,” Said the King. [ARTICLE]

“Be Comforted,” Said the King.

King Frederick VI. of Denmark, ■while traveling through Jutland, one day entered a village school and found the children lively and intelligent and quite ready to answer his questions. “Well,, youngsters,” he said, “what are the names of the 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. “Do you know another ?” asked the King. “Yes—Frederick VI.!” “What great act did he perform?” The girl hung her head and stammered out. “I don’t know. ” “Be comforted, my child,” said the King, “I don’t know either.”— lrish Times. * There are but two gun foundries in the United States, one at West Point and the other at Boston.