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    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6.
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6.
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6.
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    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6.

    By Mark Twain

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6.
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature in the English language, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc was his last completed book—and, by his own estimate, his best. Its acquisition by Harper & Brothers allowed Twain to stave off bankruptcy. He died in 1910. 

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      A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6. - Mark Twain

      A CONNECTICUT YANKEE, By Twain, Part 6.

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's

      Court, Part 6., by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6.

      Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      Release Date: July 6, 2004 [EBook #7247]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONNECTICUT YANKEE ***

      Produced by David Widger

      A CONNECTICUT YANKEE

      IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT

      by

      MARK TWAIN

      (Samuel L. Clemens)

      Part 6.

      CONTENTS:

      CHAPTER XXVII

      THE YANKEE AND THE KING TRAVEL INCOGNITO

      About bedtime I took the king to my private quarters to cut his hair and help him get the hang of the lowly raiment he was to wear. The high classes wore their hair banged across the forehead but hanging to the shoulders the rest of the way around, whereas the lowest ranks of commoners were banged fore and aft both; the slaves were bangless, and allowed their hair free growth.  So I inverted a bowl over his head and cut away all the locks that hung below it. I also trimmed his whiskers and mustache until they were only about a half-inch long; and tried to do it inartistically, and succeeded.  It was a villainous disfigurement.  When he got his lubberly sandals on, and his long robe of coarse brown linen cloth, which hung straight from his neck to his ankle-bones, he was no longer the comeliest man in his kingdom, but one of the unhandsomest and most commonplace and unattractive.  We were dressed and barbered alike, and could pass for small farmers, or farm bailiffs, or shepherds, or carters; yes, or for village artisans, if we chose, our costume being in effect universal among the poor, because of its strength and cheapness.  I don't mean that it was really cheap to a very poor person, but I do mean that it was the cheapest material there was for male attire—manufactured material, you understand.

      We slipped away an hour before dawn, and by broad sun-up had made eight or ten miles, and were in the midst of a sparsely settled country.  I had a pretty heavy knapsack; it was laden with provisions—provisions for the king to taper down on, till he could take to the coarse fare of the country without damage.

      I found a comfortable seat for the king by the roadside, and then gave him a morsel or two to stay his stomach with.  Then I said I would find some water for him, and strolled away.  Part of my project was to get out of sight and sit down and rest a little myself.  It had always been my custom to stand when in his presence; even at the council board, except upon those rare occasions when the sitting was a very long one, extending over hours; then I had a trifling little backless thing which was like a reversed culvert and was as comfortable as the toothache.  I didn't want to break him in suddenly, but do it by degrees.  We should have to sit together now when in company, or people would notice; but it would not be good politics for me to be playing equality with him when there was no necessity for it.

      I found the water some three hundred yards away, and had been resting about twenty minutes, when I heard voices.  That is all right, I thought—peasants going to work; nobody else likely to be stirring this early.  But the next moment these comers jingled into sight around a turn of the road—smartly clad people of quality, with luggage-mules and servants in their train!  I was off like a shot, through the bushes, by the shortest cut.  For a while it did seem that these people would pass the king before I could get to him; but desperation gives you wings, you know, and I canted my body forward, inflated my breast, and held my breath and flew. I arrived.  And in plenty good enough time, too.

      "Pardon, my king,

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