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Show I I FDUGHT:Rfc'WAY TO FREEDOM I ; ' Tha Emporor of Rome Admired the ' , Courage and Pluck of I Caractacus. j One of tlio most imltiiio . capt.lveH I 1 ever brought luimo to Rome by Juliun ' -JCaesnr wiis Cnriictitcna of the early ; ' ; ltritone. This great chief lost every-thins every-thins In njxlitlnpr to drive out the ; Romans" and was taken prisoner with I.' his wife and children. When brought before the Kouian emperor the proud v miVr of the primitive people never t showed tho least fear. His Arras wore-. wore-. i chained, ,aucl 'the .emperor ,..roqre,d, jto ty to frighten Cnrnctaons,'-but' tho S 'A ave chief never so much as quaked. ,.- ; Instead he .looked .the. .monarch in the eye and said:" - '".,,r ' 1 K" - ' K i "You fight to gain the .whoM World ',;;';' and to make everybody youf slaves.- I t fought to keep ,my. own .Itujdand for -,V, freedom." ' ' - - ' -; . The great courage' the' chief i showed i finally touched: .fhebenft jof-,he imi .- peror, and the ruler of the Romans i , ; resolved to see If Caractacus would be as brave... when ; faring ; wajrtors; Qn ,' ;;oneof the' great, holidays in, 'Ronie v Caractacus was- taken for the ) great C -open-air amphitheater where the popn-07 popn-07 lace gathered. He was told that if he t-Vcpuld -.defeat the' bold knight '- that '"'-''would he sent against him he could go baek-to-bis-home: Caractacus fought as he never had before;, for something some-thing sweeter than his life was at ((.'takerfTth'nt'lofl'his wife 'and' 'children. Justice seemed to have tempered, the metal ,pf his weapons, and w.ben he t! struck the-strong armor of 'hlS antagonist antag-onist gave way I "before hlti1' 'earful blows. ;T,he, .resultj wasjthat .Caractacus r and tiis family returned tp.p.ritain and "to happiness. ' ' I - H l |
