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SAI International School
                                                 Class IX English

                                         Chapter-The Happy Prince

                                                   Lesson Notes


                     The Happy Prince was a beautiful statue of a dead prince,

                       decorated with gold leaves and precious stones.

                     One night a little swallow took shelter between the feet of the

                       Happy Prince. He was on his way to Egypt.

                     He noticed that the Happy Prince was crying.

                     The prince was happy when he was alive.After his death they

                       set him high above the city from where he could see the

                       ugliness and all the misery of his people.A swallow took

                       shelter near him.Every night the Prince would request the


                       swallow to take away one of his precious stones and give it to
                       the needy.


                     After the prince lost his sight, the swallow would narrate the
                       sufferings of people.


                     As commanded by the Prince he picked leaf after leaf of the

                       fine gold and gave it to the poor.

                     The intense cold killed the swallow. The swallow’s death

                       broke the prince’s leaden heart.

                     The statue looked shabby so they pulled it down.

                     God was very pleased by their act and said that “for in my

                       garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for ever more and

                       in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me.”
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