Download or read book AMYS AND AMYLE - An Old Romantic Tale written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 243 In this 243rd ÿissue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of Amys and Amyle, two knights who lived in Lombardy a long, long time ago. Their wives were the best friends in the world. From the moment they could walk they were never seen apart; if they ever did quarrel no one ever heard of it; and by the time they were twelve years old they had grown so like each other that even their parents could hardly tell the difference between them. It was in their twelfth year that the duke, their liege lord, bade all his vassals to a great festival to be held in his castle, and many of them took their sons with them, to show them some of the customs of chivalry. Amys and Amyle went with the rest, and endless were the mistakes made about them. The boys themselves, who were merry little fellows, delighted in increasing the confusion, and played so many pranks that the duke declared that they must remain at the court with him, as his life would be too dull without them. At first the boys felt unhappy and lonely in this strange new world, and clung to each other more closely than ever, but, after a little, they got used to the change, and learned eagerly how to shoot at a mark and tilt at a ring, or to sing sweet love-songs to the sound of a lute. When Amys and Amyle were eighteen years old, and now considered men and ready to cross lances with the bravest. The first step they took towards proving to the world that no tie of blood could bind them closer than the love they bore one to another, was to swear the oaths which made them brothers in arms, and obliged them to fight in each other?s quarrels and avenge each other?s wrongs. Later, much later they finish their training and are knighted after their first tournament. After being knighted, they are both given high posts in the Duke?s court. Some are slighted that they have been overlooked for these posts as they thought that they should have been rewarded with these after so many years of service. And so the political machinations begin, led and fed a diet of festering untruths by those who have been overlooked. But what happened to Sir Amys and Sir Amyle you ask? Were they outmanoeuvred by their political opponents? Did they live happily ever after? Well, you?ll just have to download and read the story to find out. Wont you! BUY ANY 4 BABA INDABA CHILDREN?S STORIES FOR ONLY $1 33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. ÿ INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE BABA INDABA STORIES ÿ Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps. Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".