Charles Morris
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Chapter one of Historical Tales Volume seven Spanish.
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Historical Tales Volume seven Spanish by Charles Morris.
Chapter one
The good King Wamba
Long had the Goths been lords of Spain.
Chief after chief had they chosen, king after king had they served, and though it was young in time Gothic Spain was growing old in years.
It reached its golden age in the time of good King Wamba, a king of fancy as much as of fact, under whom Spain became a land of Arcadia, everybody was happy, all things prospered, and the tide of evil events for a space ceased to flow.
In those days when a king died and left no son, the Goths elected a new one, seeking their best and worthiest, and holding the election in the place where the old king had passed away.
It was in the little village of Gertikos, some eighty miles from the city of Valladolid, that King Resesuinto had sought health and found death.
Hither came the electors, the great nobles, the bishops, and the generals, and here they debated who should be king, finally settling on a venerable Goth named Wamba.
The one man of note in all the kingdom who throughout his life had declined to accept rank and station.
The story goes that their choice was aided by a miracle.
In those days, miracles were as plentiful as blackberries, but many of them seem to have been what we may speak of as miracles made to order, designed by shrewd individuals to gain some personal or other advantage.
Saint Leo is said to have told the electors to seek a husbandman named Wamba.
whose lands lay somewhere in the west, asserting that he did this under direction of the heavenly powers.
However that be, scouts were sent through the land in search of Wamba, whom they found at length in his fields, driving his plough through the soil and asking for no higher lot.
He was like Cincinnatus, the famous Roman, who was called from the plough to the scepter.
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