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Show and got down on one knee to speak trJ him, and always called hitn "Your 1\lajcsly,'· and waited on him fir t at 1ncals, and di(ln't set down in hi.· presence till he asked them. So Jim. and me set to majestying him, and doing thi and that and foU ter for hitn, and stan ding up till he told us we might set. dnwn. This done bi111 heaps of good, and so he got cheerful :nul cornfortablc. ]~ut the duke kind of sour d on hi1n, and <lidn·t 1ook a bit sati 'ned with the \vay things wa going; slill, the king act d Teal fric'ndly towards hirn, and aid the duke's great-grandfather and aU the other Dukes of Bilg water \Ya · a goo< l d al thought of hy his father, and was allowed to cmnc tv the palace con -iclcrnb1e; but the duke staid huffy a good \vhilc, till hy-and-by th king says : ~~ Like as not we got to be together a bhtn1ccl long i in1e, on t hi~ h-yer raft, Hilg \Vater, and o what's the usc o' your bein' ~nur? It'll only 1nakc thing· oncomfortable. It ain't u1y fault I warn't born a cluk , it ain't your fault you warn't born a king -- ~o what's th u e to worry ? l\1ake the be 't o' things the .-..v:t)' you find 'e1n, sny · ! - that's my motto. Thi. ain·t no bad thing that we've struck here-plenty grub and an easy lifecoin<', give us your hand, Duke, and less all be friend ." The duke done it, and Jim and me was pretty glad to sec jL It took away all the uncomfortablenes ·,and we felt mighty gooLl over it, because it would a been a miserable bu:ine ·s to ha.Ye any unfriendliness on the raft; for what you want, above all things, on a raft, i · for every body to be ~atisficd, and feel right and kind toward· the others. 1 t didn't take me long to make up my mind that the c liars \\nrn't no king · nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbug· and fraud~. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to 1nyself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrelti, and don't get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them king,. and duke:, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it wonld keep ] , 0 peace . in the fatnil y ; and it warn •t 110 n · t o ~l <,1 1 '1 n' n, so I d 1· d n · t. t 1l hnn. If I never l('nrnt nothin(b) ' '1"· 011t of pt.l p I l earnt that the b st ~~ay to get along with hi. kind of pro1lle i . to 1, thr.n1 haxe thc1r own way. . { I IJ |
