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Wang Mang decided that he had lived long enough. He might grow troublesome in a year or two Was a frightful sacrilege, yet the people seem to have quietly submitted to the violation of the imperialįive years passed away, and the emperor reached the age of sixteen. Of former monarchs of the jewels and other valuables buried with them. Money was needed for the ambitious upstart, and he obtained it by robbing the graves a boy of nine years was raised to the throne as nominal emperor, under whose shadow The friends and officials of Gaiti were ruined and disgraced, and in the year 1Ī.D. In the year 1 B.C.the emperor Gaiti died, and Wang Mang, a powerful official, joined with the mother of the dead emperor to WITH the opening of the Christian era a usurper came to the Chinese throne. THANK YOU TO THE BALDWIN PROJECT FOR THEIR WONDERFUL WEB SITE.Ī Little Chinese Story from T h e B a l d w i n P r o j e c tīringing Yesterday's Classics to Today's Children 'CRIMSON EYEBROWS' YOU WILL FIND THE ROMAN HORRIBLE HISTORIES He is now survived by his grand-children and great grand children.ĬOREY'S CASTLE BRINGS TO YOUR SCREEN TWENTY FOUR WONDERFUL He lived in Islip, Oxfordshire, UK,Īnd was married to Sylvia, they had two daughters - Jenifer (Brown) andĮlizabeth (Swinnerton). He wrote books as well as poems, as well as producing aĬhildren's magazine called the Merry Go Round, published in Oxford with He published many poems during theġ920s and 30s. but as this would have made him 56 when ww2 broke out I am not sure if he was killed in action. He was born in 1884 and died during the years of ww2. Seuss (SEE VIDEO BELOW)īut course, this short but lovely poem was written by Hugh Chesterman, who was a wonderful children's author. I like the similarity with Fox in Sock's from Dr. He'd mouth and mutter and tear his locks, They mended the shirts and darned the socks Was this rickety Nag of Sir Nicketty Nox. His sword and buckler were old and cracked, I wonder if this old gentleman was ever a knight at

The Highway by Hugh Chesterman