The Prince and the Pauper.Contents by Dima Vasetsky

Introduction
It's a cold autumn day.
Today two boy are born in the city of London.
One of them is from a poor family and his name is Tom.
And the other boy is a rich family and his name is Edward.
Edward is the king's son.
After Edward's birth everyone is happy.
Nobody wants to work, so everybody has a holiday.
Several years pass.
Tom lives in an old house on the third floor.
His mother is a kind woman who loves children.
But his father is a bad person.
In the house where Tom lives, lives an old man.
Everyone calles this man father Andrew.
Father Andrew loves Tom.
First he teaches Tom how to read.
Then he teaches him how to write and speak Latin.
After Andrew's stories Tom becomes cleverer.
Tom and his friends always play a game called "King"
Then Tom comes home after games without any money his father beats him.
After that Tom goes to bed and dreams about kings...
Part 1

Today Tom gets up hungry and goes away hungry.
First,he turns two times.
After that he goes straight on.
His thoughts are full of his night's dream.
He comes to Westminster and looks through the gates.
At the other side of the gates stands a good-looking boy.
It's Edward Tudor.
Then Tom puts his face against the bars of the gates.
The next moment one of the soldiers pushes him.
Edward sees it and and cries to the soldier.
Then Edward invites Tom and they come inside.
The prince asks Tom about Tom's life.
Tom tells him about all.
Then Edward wants to do a change because he likes Tom's life.
After that Edward sees a bruise on Tom's face.
Edward becomes angry and goes to the soldiers.
But they take him for Tom and say "Go away".
Part 2

Soon Tom finds himself in a big apartment of the palace.
Around him stand a lot of lords.
Before him there is a fat man, who is on a sofa.
The man is Henry VIII, King of England.
The King asks Tom about his health and says that he is the King.
Then Tom falls on his knees and begins to cover his face.
The lords help Tom to stand up.
After that Henry VIII understands that his thoughts about "his son" are true.
He tells Tom to be at peace.
Tom tries to tell the King that he isn't king's son, but the King doesn't believe him.
Then the King decides to examine Tom.
First he asks a question in Latin and Tom answers in the same language.
Then the King asks a question in French.
First Tom stands silent for a moment.
After that he says that he doesn't know that language.
Then the King gives some orders.
In the end Tom leaves the King.
Part 3
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At one o'clock in the afternoon Tom visits a large apartament, there is a tble, laid fir one.
Tom is very hungry, so he begins to eat at once.
He doesn't pay attention to all lords, who are in the room.
While tom is eating, he puts on 'childish tricks'.
Tom begins tp eat with his fingers, but the lords don't pay attention to them.
Some minutes later Tom is at loss.
tom has a big problem: his nise begins to itch.
Tom thinks that lords have to scratch his nose, so he says them about it.
The lords are at a loss: there's no Royal Nose Scratcher in England.
So boy decides to break the etiquette and scratches his nose himself.
Then Tom put some nuts in his pocket.
After Tom's dinner a lord cimes up to Tom and gives him a cup with water, to claen Tom's mouth and finders.
Tom drinkes that water and says that he doesn't like it.
After dinner Tom goes to his room.
There he finds a book abiut the etiquette.
So, he lays down upon a sofa and begins to study the etiquette.
Part 4
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At that time Edward is found by Tom's father.
The man drags Edward home.
When they come, at home are four ladies.
John Canty beats Edward and then John's mother helps her son.
Father Andrew sees it and comes to help the boy.
But John kicks the priest with his stick and Father Andrew falls down.
After that all go to bed, but John stays and drinks more.
While children are sleeping Tom's mother make a test for Edward.
At the morning someone comes to Candy's house and says that priest is died.
John and his family run away.
They meet on the London Bridge.
Edward thinks that it is a chance for him, so he pushes John and runs to the palace.
There he asks the guard to come in.
But they laugh only and people do the same.
But there is man, who helps Edward and fights with the guard.
After that he pulls Edward and run away.
Part 5
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After that Miles Hendom and Edward go to te inn, where miles lives.+
While they are walking, Edward hears that the king is dead.
He becomes very sad.
But then Edward hears that he becomes the new king and his mood becomes better.
When they are near the inn, they hear somebody’s voice. It is John Candy.
John wants to take Edward with him, but Edward doesn’t want it.
So John Candy goes away.
When Miles and Edward come in Hendon’s little room, Edward goes to bed at last.
He asks miles to wake him up, when the table is laid.
Then a servant takes the supper to the room and Edward gets up.
Edward goes to the wash-table and stands.
He asks Miles to wash him.
After that Edward sits at the table and begins to eat.
Miles tells Edward his sad story.
Edward listens to the story and lets Moles make a wish.
Miles wishes to sit down and eat, and they eat together.+
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Soon both of them want to sleep.
Edward asks Miles to take off his rags.
Miles is at lost, because he doesn’t know where will he sleep.
But Edward says him to sleep near the door, as if he reads Hendon’s thoughts.
Soon they are asleep, but at 12 o’clock at night Miles gets up.
He wants to go to a shop to buy a suit for Edward. 
In the morning Hendon comes back.
He goes to Edward’s bed to wake him up.
But he doesn’t see anybody in the bed.
Miles looks for the everywhere in the room, but Edward is absent.
Then a servant comes with the breakfast.
Hendon asks him about the boy.
So they speak for fifteen minutes.
The servant tells about a stranger, who was there.
He tells that the man had taken the boy away.
Finally Miles decides to go to the city to look for the prince.

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