AS YOU LIKE IT.

HERE was once a wicked Duke, named Frederick, who took the

dukedom that should have belonged to his brother, and kept it

for himself, sending his brother into exile. His brother went into the

Forest of Arden, where he lived the life of a bold forester, as Robin Hood
did in Sherwood Forest in our England.

The banished Duke’s daughter, Rosalind, remained with Celia,
Frederick’s daughter, and the two loved each other more than most
sisters. One day there was a wrestling match at Court, and Rosalind
and Celia went to see it. Charles, a celebrated wrestler, was there, who
had killed many men in contests of this kind. The young man he was
to wrestle with was so slender and youthful, that Rosalind and Celia
thought he would surely be killed, as others had been; so they spoke
to him, and asked him not to attempt so dangerous an adventure ; but