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Chapter XXIII

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Well, all day him and the king was hard ssssssssss

at it, rigging up a stage, and a cur- ssssssssss

tain, and a row of candles for foot- ssssssssss

lights; and that night the house ssssssssss

was jam full of men in no time. ssssssssss

When the place couldn't hold no ssssssssss

more, the duke he quit tending door ssssssssss

and went around the back way and ssssssssss

come onto the stage and stood up ssssssssss

before the curtain, and made a ssssssssss

little speech, and praised up this ssssssssss

tragedy, and said it was the most ssssssssss

thrillingest one that ever was; and ssssssssss

so he went on a-bragging about the ssssssssss

tragedy and about Edmund Kean ssssssssss

the Elder, which was to play the ssssssssss

main principal part in it; and at ssssssssss

last when he'd got everybody's ex- ssssssssss

pectations up high enough, he rolled up the curtain, and the next minute the

king come a-prancing out on all fours, naked; and he was painted all over, ring-

streaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors, as splendid as a rainbow. And -- but

never mind the rest of his outfit, it was just wild, but it was awful funny. The

people most killed themselves laughing; and when the king got done, capering,

and capered off behind the scenes, they roared and clapped and stormed and haw-

hawed till he come back and done it over again; and after that, they made him

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