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Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, was hiding in a hut in the forest. His enemies were seeking him far and wide. Six times he had met them in battle, and six times he had failed. Hope and courage were gone. Bruce had given up all as lost. He was about to run away from Scotland and to leave the country in the hands of his enemies.

Full of sorrow, he lay stretched on a pile of straw in the poor Woodchopper's hut. While he lay there thinking, he noticed a spider spinning her web.

The spider was trying to spin a thread from one beam of the cottage to another. It was a long way between the beams, and Bruce saw how hard a task it was for her to do. “She will never do it,” thought the king. The little spider tried it once and failed. She tried it twice and failed. The king counted each attempt. She had tried it six times and had failed each time.

“She is like me,” thought the king. “I have tried six battles and failed. She has tried to reach the beam six times and failed.”

Then staring up from the straw, he cried, “I will hang my fate upon the little spider. If she swings the seventh time and fails, then I will give up all for lost. If she swings the seventh time and wins, I will call my men together once more for a battle with the enemy and never give up, much like the little spider.”

The spider tried the seventh time, letting herself down upon her slender thread. She swung out bravely. “Look! look!” shouted the king. “She has reached it. The thread hangs between the two beams. If the spider can do it, I can do it.”

Bruce got up from the straw with new strength and sent his men from the village to village, calling the people to arms. The brave soldiers answered his call and came trooping in. At length, his army was ready to fight, and when the king led them in a great battle against the enemy, this time, like the spider, Bruce won.

This is an excerpt taken from The Beacon Second Reader written by James Fassett.

How would this story be different if the spider was telling the story?