1 I doan mine one er two kings, but dat's enough.
2 All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances.
3 So I went to talking about other kings, and let Solomon slide.
4 Well, the duke allowed he would take my bed; but the king allowed he wouldn't.
5 So the duke and the king went to overhauling our wigwam, to see what the beds was like.
6 You don't know kings, Jim, but I know them; and this old rip of ourn is one of the cleanest I've struck in history.
7 I hain't hearn 'bout none un um, skasely, but ole King Sollermun, onless you counts dem kings dat's in a pack er k'yards.'
8 I hain't hearn 'bout none un um, skasely, but ole King Sollermun, onless you counts dem kings dat's in a pack er k'yards.'
9 The king got out an old ratty deck of cards after breakfast, and him and the duke played seven-up a while, five cents a game.
10 The king told us to stand well out towards the middle of the river, and not show a light till we got a long ways below the town.
11 It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.
12 That's the kind of a bug Henry was; and if we'd a had him along 'stead of our kings he'd a fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done.'
13 If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him.'
14 I told about Louis Sixteenth that got his head cut off in France long time ago; and about his little boy the dolphin, that would a been a king, but they took and shut him up in jail, and some say he died there.
15 I read considerable to Jim about kings and dukes and earls and such, and how gaudy they dressed, and how much style they put on, and called each other your majesty, and your grace, and your lordship, and so on, 'stead of mister; and Jim's eyes bugged out, and he was interested.'
16 Jim lit out, and was a-coming for me with both arms spread, he was so full of joy; but when I glimpsed him in the lightning my heart shot up in my mouth and I went overboard backwards; for I forgot he was old King Lear and a drownded A-rab all in one, and it most scared the livers and lights out of me.
17 When we was three-quarters of a mile below we hoisted up our signal lantern; and about ten o'clock it come on to rain and blow and thunder and lighten like everything; so the king told us to both stay on watch till the weather got better; then him and the duke crawled into the wigwam and turned in for the night.
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