Lessons of life

1. King Arthur of the round table
One day was a great king in England.
His name was King Arthur.
When he was a young man Arthur had the company of his knights of round table, and all had a
wonderful time riding together on their horses.
They were all great heroes and everybody knew their names: Sir Lancelot; Sir Gawaine, and
many others.
But then one day king Arthur had to go to France and he told Mordred, Gawaine's brother," I
must go to France now, you will take my place for a short time.
I shall come back to England in six months".
When the king went away; Mordred wanted to be king of England in Arthur's place.
So, one day, he went to the people and said, "King Arthur is dead. He was killed in France, and
so I shall be your king."
When king Arthur heard of what Mordred was doing he went back to England. When he
arrived at Dover; Mordred was already there with a great number of men. They had a long
battle and at the end of the day Mordred had to run away.
But that night Gawaine died and king Arthur was very sad because he liked his nephew very
much.
Then king Arthur and Mordred come to a place near Salisbury and they told their men. "we
shall sleep here tonight.
King Arthur went to sleep, and in his sleep he saw Gawaine who spoke to him.
"My dear king! Do not give battle to Mordred tomorrow, because if you do will certainly die.
Speak to Mordred and show him that you do not want any battle now."
In the morning king Arthur went to speak to Mordred with some of his knights.
But before that he said to his me."Watch well because Mordred is a bad man."
If you see that one of his men takes out his sword, come and give battle to them.
Mordred spoke to his men, too, saying kill all Arthur's men if you see one of them take out his
sword.
So Arthur and Mordred met and spoke, but when they were speaking one of the knights saw a
snake and took out his sword to kill it.
Another great battle began there and at the end of day when evening was falling Mordred was
alone. All his men were dead and then he saw Mordred standing near.

2. He took his spear and ran to Mordred killing him with it.
But Mordred's sword come down on the king's head and he fell.
Mordred was dead but Arthur's death was near, too.
So he spoke to one of the two knights bedivere, who was like a child.
"Don't cry, Sir Bedivere. I'm going to die but there is one thing that you must do.
Take the Excalibur, my sword, and throw it into the water of that lake. Then come back and tell
me what you saw."
Bedivere did not want to throw that good sword into the water.
Once, twice, he put it under a stone. Once, twice he had to go back to that lake because Arthur
knew what Bedivere was doing .
Bedivere went a third time to the lake and taking up Excalibur he threw it into the water, when
he did it a hand came out of the water and took the sword away.
King Arthur was very pleased when he knew of it. He asked Bedivere, take me to the lake now.
When they were there they saw a black ship coming on the water.
There were some women in it all dressed in black and crying.
They took the king inside the ship and it began to go away. Seeing his king go, Bedivere
shouted "my king! My king."
But Arthur gave no answer. And the ship went away taking the hero to the vale of Avalon that
is the place where all dead heroes go.
And alone, on the beach, stood Bedivere.