Show about I 1 I 1 11 forma oh I 1 do V ish WU no stich thing as history I 1 just bate III 11 harry my toy I 1 do not think you me an what you say you were very much interested the other day I 1 aben I 1 was telling I 1 marie antoinette 0 O In arema that wa 3 just R I 1 wish all history was jiust beautiful stories without datcu I 1 hate darew 1 I remember you wera quite tornow when marie ano toinette I 1 ired and wh ether she was be headed befaro washington was born flow could we o things without dates I 1 I 1 think I 1 my harry has been till his mind I 1 tired so byoir way put away your books and alwill leava ruy sewing and we will take a walk in the fresh air oh goedl and bile we alq walking wont you tell we A story a true story about 09 that happened ever ablong ago why harry do you want me to spoil our walk with the history you b ate so much lauga heartily and set oft in agh spirits on the walk there wits nothing he enjoyed so much as strolls with his mith er who alii ays contrived to have entertaining to tell her only child whose bri and enthusiasm were her of pleasure A long time ago were built rith stone walla around imaging it woe wail around this town wide enough on the top for two carriages to rido the wall of tile city I 1 am goerig to tel I 1 you about were twenty feet thick that is about half the width of this street were as ag they were thick and to walk all around them would be a walk of two miles in this wall there pere five gates at each gate there was a soldier called keep guard over e city there were twenty five people living in the city M of these were very wealthy and suliven in very fine houses the houses however frere not built like adars four or five stories high but generally only one story and a cel jar the bed rooms were made I 1 quite small anti often without any windows they did n ot have so much knowledge of camf ort as we have their climate wits very fine and they spent much time out of doors so their houses had fine porches and courts filled with daw ere it was one of their customs to have the cerne teries for the rich people by when tiny they burned the bodies 1 0 mamma were the ft I 1 that was horrible to burn the bo diesl no they were not savages tey were cultivated people they were so accustomed to it that it did not arct them any more unpleasantly than our custom of burying after the bodies were burned they gathered the ashes and put them into an urn and often placed this in a carble vault find inscribed the name on the outside the streets of the city were narrow abid with blocks of stone the stores or shops were quite small the u bli n c buildings I 1 were large strong ay iy b il and beautifully finished 0 e th rIght beautiful day the sen tries were all at their accustomed posts and the were showing their wares to their cui Lomers blany flue chariots WIL I 1 h bcd horses and filled with gail v ed people were pas mg through the children ivere busy at play I 1 mothers were tenderly caring for their sick families were gathered I 1 I 1 on the broad plaza laughing and I 1 ebat ting the sky was I 1 hidden by a blac cloud some I 1 thought a heavy shower was comil g and drove their hors es rapidly to I 1 ward home others supposed it I 1 I 1 must mean a tornado or storm and fled to the cellar all attempt at escape was useless for in im time than it takes me to tell it not wind or rain but the cloud fell instantly upon the city and buried I 1 I 1 it with the people in a grave of 1 that was dreadful mamma did god send the ailees down from heaven no but riot more than five miles uway there was A volcano it had not had any so long that the 0 ale did anything out danger and this beautiful ty of pompeii together with other cities was instantly destroyed how long ago was that main I 1 ma oll I 1 dont want to it ray story with those hateful dates hair ry 1 ever mind when this bap bened I 1 now elmma I 1 am going to like dates for they make stories ever to much more interesting this occurred in 79 the wonderful part of 4 all is that when the ashes removed near IY seventeen centuries every tiling was so well preserved that much of the lives of the peo ele and the histon of the city can e atad in the ruin s y it be to walk in the street of a city before christ came into the world I 1 this cit y was built nearly four 11 hundred years before christ came I 1 rich romans used to b sum I 1 there had a 1 tillit beautifully rutted up and entertained augustus there there wits a magnificent where they had the I 1 you of the other day but here we abw at home again now begins duty we are both fresh for oti r easlic 1 hurrah for bianey dates a ud a 11 I 1 dont bate yo u tiny more 68 S frenden in edday ive walked for miles in the of old pompeii where un covered and the wheel worn deeply into the pavements are low 23 plainly seen as if made but yesterday thou oi they were yered by the volcanic ashes 1809 ago is about 15 alles mlles southeast oT Naples in italy arlind the eastern 0 0 if the eky af 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