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Show Them rap. cnllion took in four hundrerl. and ·ixty-firp d llar.' in that tlne nights. 1 n vcr :c 1non y hnulrd in by th wagon-lna<llik that, before. By-an<l-by, when th y W<L' a:lr p nn<l snoring, Jin1 :n.\s: "Don't it ·~pris<~ yon, <h~ wa,v <l )1n king~ carrie~ on, 11 \l('k? .. "No,'' I says, "it don't.·• '\Yhy do11't it, 1Inek?'' "\V 11, it don't, hecanse it's in i he br e<l. I reckon ill<1 \''n· all alike." '~Rut, l[uck:, tle:e kina. o' out·n is rrgulclr rap._callion~ · dat'. ji:t wltat dt~' is; tlPy·s reglar rap:callion:.' H\\'ell that'~ what l'n1 a-~aying; e:11l kings i~ n1o:tly rnp- ,'call ion~·, a. fur a.· I can 1na ke onL .. H Is <hi . ()? .. " Yon rend a bnuL t he1n oll('t' you'll :ee. Look n t J [ ('111'\' iht• Eight· this'n ·~a. nnday-~·k·hool f-;upcri11ten<lcnt in him . .. \11tl look at Charles ~econd, and I.iouis }' nrtcrn, :nHl Loni~ Fifl·en, :uHl .Tanl<'~ ~econd, <llHl E<lwanl f; )cond, ancl Hid1;1nl Third mH1 forty llHWt'; b< · ~i<l<.'S nl1 thcn1 Saxon hP]>t:tr<'ltil·:-: i hnt nsC'<l to rip aronn<l .·o jn old 1 in1cs and rnisr C:tilt. ::\I.r, you onght to srt•n old Jlenry the' Eight wh n ht' \\.:L in bloon1. I [c 1('({ ,' a hlossmn. J [' u.·c<l to 1narry a ll<'\\. wif1· <'Ycry day, mH1 chop off hrr h<·ad next Jnorning. .:\11<l lw \\onld clo it jn:t ns indiff rent ns if hfl wa.' onl<'ring up <'grr~. 'Fetch np 1 ... t\11 (J,vynn,' h snv:. '1'h<~y t'tch her up. , ~<'xl 1norning, ~ hop off hcr head!' A11<l tl1ey chop it off. ·Fetch up Jane' Shore · he sny~; and up sit cotne:. N xt llH>rning Chop oft' lt<.~r hea<l ·--an<l they cl1op it off. 'l{ing np Fair l{o <nnnn.' Fair Ho.·nn1un nnsw rs ih hell. Next n1orning, 'Chop off h r h<'<Hl.' And h<' nuHlc ('Very one of the1n tell l1im a tal) every night ; an<l he k 'pt i hat up till be had hogged a t hon an<l and one tales that way, and then he put th m <dl in :1 book, and enllcd it Dmn day Book-which wa a good nm1H' '_).• ), t n1Hl . tat <1 the C(l ·e. Yon <lon't ln10\Y king~, Jitn, hnt I kn ow thcn1; and thi.· t)ltl rip of oun1. is 011c of thP clt>anc:st 1\ <• .truek in hi:tory. \Y 11, l[enry h' take: a notion h<' wants tn get np ,'OJlH'\ tronhl with this ountry. J[ow dors lH' go :li it -gt \'C 11nt ic ~ ?-gi \'C i he country a show? n. All n f :1 - - ~ ---...... _, -....... ( ' ..__ - - - - --- . utlclen h(• hcaYc., all the t a in J~o:'ton Harhonr overboard, <tll <r wh~ck ., out a <ll clarati n of in<l<)pcn<.lenee, anc l dare's tlH'lll 1 o co1nc on. That \Yns hi tyl - h n Yer gi\' ) anybody a chan 't·. lie had su. picicns of his fath 'r, the J)nke of \Y ellington. \Y·t~ll, what did he do? - asl' hin1 to ho\v Hp? ~o-drown<le<l hitn |