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Show \rith hi '"' hand~; ancl ih<' dukr h looks at hitrl tnpi·l and l<·at her-h acl<·d a while, then all of a uclden he . eenl · to cat ·h lti 1ncaning andju1np· for tlH~ king g·oo-gooing with all ] 1i~ 1night for joy, ancl hug.' hi1n about fifteen times b fore hr ld~ 11p. Th \n the king ~ay~, "I knowed it ; I reckon that ·n <'On - I'OR II 1.\f. v1n \ anybody th way he feels ~bout it. Here, l\Iary .1<111<', ~u:an, Joanner, take the 1uonry- take it all. It's the crift of l1i1n that. lay yond<>r, cold but joyful.'' b ::\Iary Jan \ he went for hitn, Su ·an and the hare-li1) " ·<·nt ftll' l he dnk , and then , uc!t another hugging and ki ·ing 1 11 '\·cr 'ee Y t. And e\· rybody cro\YclPd up ·with the tc<n·: in ~.;:: tl1cir c·yr, an<l m . t shook thP hand.., off of thc1n frand~, :-;arin~· : 111 tl 1 c· t i rn c : ·Yon (lea1· good ou]:-; ~-how lovPl!J .'- ltow tould you~ ·· \\~ell, th 11, pretty oon a1l lHnHl~ got to tulki11g about ilr di~e:l.'C'rl again, ancl how goocl h was and vvltat a lo. ·s lte \rn...:, ;nHl :tll 1 hat ; and be fore long a big ir011-ja\r \(l 1nan \vorkt•tl hinu.;elf in th re fro1n ont:ide, HlHl .-toocl a li:.:;t<'llillg ancl looki11g, ancl not. aying anything·; antl nobody s;1ying anytl1ing to l1in1 eit lH\r, beaus~ the king wa bilking and ihey wa.· all bn~y li:-:t uing. The king \Y:ts ·nying - in the 1niddle of ~oJnc·tltill~· lH·'d ~Llrtecl in on- '-ihey bein' partickler friclHl. · o· the dis as <1 . That\ wlt.v the.v 'r ... invitetl h er e tltis (\VC'llin· · but to-nlmTow we wnn t ull to cmne-everybo<l.Y; for he respected evrrybody, h<' likPcl <'V 'r.v hod v, and so it'~ fl t t \n that l1 i~ fnneral orgies ·h 'd be pnhlic .'' ~\nd . o he went a-1nooning on clll<l on liking to hear him:<'l f 1alk, :1n<l every little \vhil he fetch 'd in his fnn(•ral org·il's ·tu·tin i ill the clnke h conldn·L 'tancl it no n1on) · so lt<' \\TiU\s ( t1 ( ' on a liU lc' . crap of paper "obsequ ie.~, yon 1<1 fool ·· nn<l fold:-~ it np a11cl goes to goo-gooing antl r aching it. O\'('r p<>oph·'s heads to hin1. The king It<' r'ads it, and puts iL in hi.· poek<·t, :mel snys: ,, Poor vVillian1, afflict .<l <t. h e i~, hi .· he(u·{s a.luz right . .Ask. lll to invite everybocly to con1e to th fnneral-\rants nu· to nwk ' 1n all welc01n e. But h n 'eclu't a worri d-it ·wns j <>. t what I \vas at." Then he weaves along again, perfectly <'nhn, nncl goes to dropping in his funeral orgi s agnin e\'ery now nncl then, ju:-;t 1 i kc he clone before. And "\vh n he don it the thinl ti1ne, ht· . ays : ~ ' I say orgies, not because it' the cotnmon term, becausP jt :tjn't-obEequies bein' the co1n1non terrn-but becau:e orgie: |