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Chapter XXIX

 

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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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