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your majesty, and your grace, and your lordship, and so on, 'stead of mister;

and Jim's eyes bugged out, and he was interested. He says:

"I didn' know dey was so many un um. I hain't hearn 'bout none un um,

skasely, but ole King Sollermun, onless you counts dem kings dat's in a pack er

k'yards. How much do a king git?" ssssssssss

"Get?" I says; "why, they get a thousand dollars a month if they want it;

they can have just as much as they want; everything belongs to them."

"Ain' dat gay? En what dey got to do, Huck?"

"They don't do nothing! Why how you talk. They just set around."

"No -- is dat so?"

"Of course it is. They just set around. Except maybe when there 's a war;

then they go to the war. But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking

-- just hawking and sp... -- Sh! -- d' you hear a noise?"

We skipped out and looked; but it warn't nothing but the flutter of a

steamboat's wheel, away down coming around the point; so we come back.

"Yes," says I, "and other times, when things is dull, they fuss with the

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