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EASTONIA PUBLISHED ANNUALLY BY THE STUDENTS OF EASTON HIGH SCHOOL EASTON, MAINE . . . APRIL 1911 SUBSCRIPTION: FIFTEEN CENTS PER COPY K A IX ri Ii 5 A Q i f Tif' X im m uilrsiiggfrliln ,I '--- 1' ' J! -:ny GX '-J QAQ' KING ARTHUR About 449 a band of Teutons, called Jutes, left Den- mark, landed on the Isle of Thanet and began the conquest of Britain. Warriors from the tribes of the Angles and the Saxons soon followed and drove westward the original in- habitants of Britain. Many stories are told of how brave kings met these invading tribes and tried to force them back. Perhaps the hero best known in these legends is Arthur, a prince of the Britons. There are two legendsabout the birth of King Arthur. One is that when Uther, the King of Britain, was dying, he was very anxious for an heir, and prayed for several days that he might know who his successor would be before he died. The night when Uther passed away, just before he died, Merlin left him moaning and wailing for an heir. He passed through the castle gateway into the dismal night
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2 E-ASTONQIA and on down to the water's edge. There he saw upon a Wave a ship in the shape of a dragon, bright from stem to stern with shining people. Then suddenly it disappeared, but still Merlin watched the waves until the ninth brought to his very feet a naked babe. Quickly he stooped and caught the child and cried, The King! Here is an heir for Uther. Merlin carried the naked one to Uther and told him of the Ending of the little one. The King, re- joicing over his divine gift of an heir, then died. The other legend is that Uther had engaged in War with a petty king of England and had slain him. He then married the widowed Wife of his victim and she raised him a son whom they named Arthur. Whichexier one of these legends may have been true, the wise old philosopher Merlin cared for the little prince and when he had become a man he made hiin ruler over his rightful kingdom. The young king planned to establish a kingdom of justice. honor and purity, and in order to accomplish this, he brought together a band of the noblest knights, known as the Round Table. Among these we still read won- derful accounts of Galahad, Lancelot, Tristram, Percival and Gareth. To belong to this Round Table was the envy of every young knight, although each one admitted had to take an oath To reverence the King, as if he were their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, and cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her. Aftl1llY,S object was to do justice always to whoever came and asked it of him. This we can see, as in the case of Lynette, asking him for his bravest knight, and at the time when a lady came to him crying, A boon, Sir King. Thy father Uther has taken from my husband his prop- ertyf' Arthur then asked her if she preferred gold or the
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