1 So me and the king lit out for the camp-meeting.
2 The king allowed he would go, too, and see if he couldn't strike something.
3 Well, the duke allowed he would take my bed; but the king allowed he wouldn't.
4 So the duke and the king went to overhauling our wigwam, to see what the beds was like.
5 The king said, take it all around, it laid over any day he'd ever put in in the missionarying line.
6 The king got the directions, and allowed he'd go and work that camp-meeting for all it was worth, and I might go, too.
7 The duke was thinking he'd been doing pretty well till the king come to show up, but after that he didn't think so so much.
8 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.
9 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.
10 So the duke he told him all about who Romeo was and who Juliet was, and said he was used to being Romeo, so the king could be Juliet.
11 The king and the duke turned out by and by looking pretty rusty; but after they'd jumped overboard and took a swim it chippered them up a good deal.
12 But by and by the king tripped and fell overboard, and after that they took a rest, and had a talk about all kinds of adventures they'd had in other times along the river.
13 Well, the first I knowed the king got a-going, and you could hear him over everybody; and next he went a-charging up on to the platform, and the preacher he begged him to speak to the people, and he done it.
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 After breakfast the king he took a seat on the corner of the raft, and pulled off his boots and rolled up his britches, and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable, and lit his pipe, and went to getting his Romeo and Juliet by heart.
16 The king was satisfied; so the duke got out his book and read the parts over in the most splendid spread-eagle way, prancing around and acting at the same time, to show how it had got to be done; then he give the book to the king and told him to get his part by heart.
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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