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Chapter XXI

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It was after sun-up, now, but we went, ssssssssss

right on, and didn't tie up. The king ssssssssss

and the duke turned out, by-and-by, ssssssssss

looking pretty rusty; but after they'd ssssssssss

jumped overboard and took a swim, it ssssssssss

chippered them up a good deal. After ssssssssss

breakfast the king he took a seat on a ssssssssss

corner of the raft, and pulled off his ssssssssss

boots and rolled up his britches, and ssssssssss

let his legs dangle in the water, so as ssssssssss

to be comfortable, and lit his pipe, and ssssssssss

went to getting his Romeo and Juliet ssssssssss

by heart. When he had got it pretty ssssssssss

good, him and the duke begun to ssssssssss

practice it together. The duke had to ssssssssss

learn him over and over again, how to ssssssssss

say every speech; and he made him sigh, and put his hand on his heart, and

after while he said he done it pretty well; "only," he says, "you mustn't

bellow out Romeo! that way, like a bull -- you must say it soft, and sick, and

languishy, so -- R-o-o-meo! that is the idea; for Juliet's a dear sweet mere child

of a girl, you know, and she don't bray like a jackass."

Well, next they got out a couple of long swords that the duke made out of

oak laths, and begun to practice the sword-fight -- the duke called himself

Richard III; and the way they laid on, and pranced around the raft was grand

to see. But by-and-by the king tripped and fell overboard, and after that they

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