The Blue Fairy Book - online childrens book

Illustrated classic fairy tales for children by Andrew Lang

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	THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON             207 body would employ him, and that he should be able if he could get some victuals to eat, for he had had nothing for three days, and he was a poor country boy, and knew nobody, and nobody would employ him.
	He then endeavoured to get up, but he was so very weak that he fell down again, which excited so much compassion in the mer­chant that he ordered the servants to take him in and give him some meat and drink, and let him help the cook to do any dirty work that she had to set him about. People are too apt to reproach