THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER In the old city of London on a cold autumn day in the second quarter ofthe ixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty. The family did not want this boy 2.On the same day another English child was born, He was born to a rich family of the name of Tudor, who wanted him very much. All England wanted him. People talked only about the new baby, Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales who lay in silk and did not know that all England wanted him so much.3. But there was no talk about the other baby, Tom Canty, who lay in his dirty rags and did not know that nobody wanted him 4.A few years passed. London was fifteen hundred years old and was a great town .5.The street where Tom's family lived was not far from London Bridge and was called offal Court. It was dirty, and the houses were of wood, with small windows. Canty's family lived in one room on the third noor of one of these houses. The mother and the father had a bed, but Tom, his grandmother, and his two sisters, .6.Be