King of Alfred

Matt has been reading G.K. Chesterton's poem "The Ballad of the White Horse" for his book group. It's the story of King Alfred and the Danes, who had horns on their helmets. Or so it's been said. He's shared it with BC on occasion and has read her several of the chapters, but not for a few weeks. It resulted in frustration for little BC because he would stop reading aloud in order to read the notes silently. She finally reached the point of saying, when he would pause, "Oh, is there a note? Are you done with the note?"

She wandered over to his copy of the book while he was at work today and picked it up, announcing that she would read it. She climbed up on the couch and opened the book up and I heard her saying, "And then King of Alfred and Jesus and Mary went [mumble mumble mumble]. And King of Alfred and the horns went in their houses because it's thundering and raining. But they're not scared of that." Then she would pause. And then say, "Oh, there's a note."