Amusing story about King Alfred

Amusing story about King Alfred

This  is   an amusing story  about King Alfred during  his wars. At one time enemy was  winning Alfred ‘s soldiers. They  didn’t  want to  fight and  ran away. The King was  alone  in the  forest. After walking  for some  time he came  to a little cottage.There was a poor  woman in the  cottage. She didn’t  know that  Alfred  was  the King  as  his  clothes  were dirty. She let  him in  and  told  him  to sit down by  the  fire to warm  imself.She asked  him to watch her cakes while  she went  to the well to fetch water,

Poor Alfred  soon forgot  about  the cakes  and when  the womancame back all her cakes were all burnt.

” You   good-for-nothing man!’ she said. “You want  to eat   but you   cannot even watch  some cakes.Take that! And that!And that!’  She  began  to  beat the poor   king with  a  big  stick.Just  then  some  of the  enemy’s soldiers came  to  the  cottage.When  they  saw the  woman beating him  they thought  that   he was her husband.So they  laughed and passed on.

When  the  poor   woman leant that  it was  the king   , she was  very  much  afraid.

“Don’t  be  afraid  my  good woman” said  Alfred with  a  smile.”I shall always  remember  the  service .