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-- give the country a show? No. All of a sudden he heaves all the tea in

Boston Harbor overboard, and whacks out a declaration of independence, and

dares them to come on. That was ssssssssss

his style -- he never give anybody a ssssssssss

chance. He had suspicions of his ssssssssss

father, the Duke of Wellington. ssssssssss

Well, what did he do? -- ask him to ssssssssss

show up? No -- drownded him in ssssssssss

a butt of mamsey, like a cat. Spose ssssssssss

people left money laying around ssssssssss

where he was -- what did he do? ssssssssss

He collared it. Spose he contracted ssssssssss

to do a thing; and you paid him, ssssssssss

and didn't set down there and see ssssssssss

that he done it -- what did he do? ssssssssss

He always done the other thing. ssssssssss

Spose he opened his mouth -- what ssssssssss

then? If he didn't shut it up ssssssssss

powerful quick, he'd lose a lie, every ssssssssss

time. That's the kind of a bug ssssssssss

Henry was; and if we'd a had him ssssssssss

along 'stead of our kings, he'd a ssssssssss

fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done. I don't say that ourn is lambs,

because they ain't, when you come right down to the cold facts; but they ain't

nothing to that old ram, anyway. All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to

make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the

way they're raised." ssssssssss

"But dis one do smell so like de nation, Huck."

"Well, they all do, Jim. We can't help the way a king smells; history

don't tell no way." ssssssssss

"Now de duke, he's a tolerble likely man, in some ways."

"Yes, a duke's different. But not very different. This one's a middling

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