KING MATTHIAS
AND THE BEGGAR BOY.
"Come here, gossip Jew; there is nothing to fear." Page 66.
King Matthias
AND THE BEGGAR BOY
ADAPTED FROM THE HUNGARIAN OF
BARON NICHOLAS JÓSIKA
BY
SELINA GAYE
Author of "Ilka: The Captive Maiden," "Dickie Winton," &c. &c.
T. NELSON AND SONS
London, Edinburgh, and New York
1902
CONTENTS.
| I. | MR. SAMSON'S CASTLE, | 9 |
| II. | MISKA THE BEGGAR BOY, | 21 |
| III. | "TOUCH ME AT YOUR PERIL!" | 32 |
| IV. | IN THE ROBBER'S NEST, | 42 |
| V. | CAUGHT, | 53 |
| VI. | I AM THE KING'S PAGE! | 68 |
| VII. | SENT TO PRISON, | 80 |
| VIII. | THE BEGGAR BOY'S SONG, | 94 |
| IX. | THE KING'S WHIM, | 109 |
KING MATTHIAS AND THE BEGGAR BOY.
CHAPTER I.
MR. SAMSON'S CASTLE.
Towards the close of a gloomy day in autumn, a very dusty traveller wasriding quietly up to a castle which stood perched on a height in one ofthe northern counties of Hungary. A very extraordinary-looking castle itwas, if it was a castle at all, which one might be inclined to doubt;for it looke
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