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They was fetching a very nice looking ssssssssss
old gentleman along, and a nice ssssssssss
looking younger one, with his right ssssssssss
arm in a sling. And my souls, how ssssssssss
the people yelled, and laughed, and ssssssssss
kept it up. But I didn't see no joke ssssssssss
about it, and I judged it would strain ssssssssss
the duke and the king some to see ssssssssss
any. I reckoned they'd turn pale. ssssssssss
But no, nary a pale did they turn. ssssssssss
The duke he never let on he suspicioned ssssssssss
what was up, but just went a goo-goo- ssssssssss
ing around, happy and satisfied, like a ssssssssss
jug that's googling out buttermilk; and ssssssssss
as for the king, he just gazed and ssssssssss
gazed down sorrowful on them new- ssssssssss
comers like it give him the stomach-ache ssssssssss
in his very heart to think there could be such frauds and rascals in the
world. Oh, he done it admirable. Lots of the principal people gethered around
the king, to let him see they was on his side. That old gentleman that had
just come looked all puzzled to death. Pretty soon he begun to speak, and
I see, straight off, he pronounced like an Englishman, not the king's way,
though the king's was pretty good, for an imitation. I can't give the old gent's
words, nor I can't imitate him; but he turned around to the crowd, and says,
about like this: ssssssssss
"This is a surprise to me which I wasn't looking for; and I'll acknowledge,
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