Nov. 15, 2024

Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe

Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe
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With themes of power, cruelty, and poetic justice, Hop-Frog remains one of Poe’s most haunting and impactful stories. Perfect for fans of gothic literature, psychological thrillers, and chilling narratives.

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One of my favorite memories of scaring myself as a

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child was getting a compilation book of Edgar Allan Poe's

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stories from my elementary school library. It brought me so

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much fear and so much excitement. I remember running home

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from school with that book in my backpack as the

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sky was dark and a storm was coming. I was

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in my childhood living room, but I wasn't alone. I

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had a pizza and the books of Poe. Every so

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often I'll bring you a tale of Poe, and I

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hope it gives you that scary fun sense, just the

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same as it does for me. So listen to these

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the story will begin hop Frog by Edgar Allan Poe.

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I never knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke

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as the King was. He seemed to live only for joking.

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To tell a good story of the joke kind, and

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to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor.

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Thus it happened that his seven ministers were all noted

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for their accomplishments as jokesters. They all took after the

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king two in being large, corpulent, oily men, as well

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as imitable jokers. Whether people grow fat by joking, or

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whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to

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a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

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But certain it is that a lean joker is a

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rava avis in terrace about the refinements, or, as he

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called them, the ghost of wit, the King troubled himself

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very little. He had an especial admiration for breadth in

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a jest, and would often put up with length for

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the sake of it. Over niceties wearied him. He would

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have preferred Rablai's gargantua to a Zadig of Voltaire, and

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upon the whole, practical jokes suited his taste far better

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than verbal ones. At the date of my narrative, professing

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jesters had not altogether gone out of fashion at court.

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Several of the great continental powers still retained their fools,

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who wore motley with caps and bells, and who were

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expected to be always ready with sharp witticisms at a

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moment's notice, in consideration of the crumbs that fell well

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from the royal table. Our King, as a matter of course,

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retained his fool. The fact is he required something in

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the way of folly, if only to counterbalance the heavy

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wisdom of the seven wise men who were his ministers.

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Not to mention himself his fool or professional jester was

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not only a fool, however, his value was trebled in

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the eyes of the king by the fact of his

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being also a dwarf and a cripple. Dwarfs were as

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common at court in those days as fools, and many

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monarchs would have found it difficult to get through their days.

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Days are rather longer at court than elsewhere without both

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a jester to laugh with and a dwarf to laugh at.

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But as I have already observed, your jesters in ninety

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nine cases out of a hundred, are fat, round and unwieldy,

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so that it was no small source of self gratulation

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with our King that in hop frog this was the

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fool's name, he possessed a triplicate treasure in one person.

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I believe the name hop Frog was not that given

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to the dwarf by his sponsors at baptism, but was

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conferred upon him by general consent of the several ministers

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on account of his inability to walk as other men do.

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In fact, hop Frog could only get along by a

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sort of interjectional gait, something between a leap and a wriggle,

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a movement that afforded illimitable amusement and of course consolation

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to the King, for notwithstanding the protuberance of his stomach

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and a constitutional swelling of the head, the King by

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his whole court was accounted a capital figure. But although

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hop Frog, through the distortion of his legs, could move

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only with great pain and difficulty along a road or floor,

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the Projudice's muscular power, which nature seemed to have bestowed

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upon his arms by way of compensation for deficiency in

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the lower limbs, enabled him to perform many feats of

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wonderful dexterity where trees or ropes were in question, or

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anything else to climb. At such exercises, he certainly much

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more resembled a squirrel or a small monkey than a frog.

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I am not able to say with precision from what

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country hop Frog originally came. It was from some barbarous region, however,

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that no person had ever heard of a vast distance

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from the court of our King. Hop Frog and a

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young girl, very little, less dwarfish than himself, although of

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exquisite proportions and a marvelous dancer, had been forcibly carried

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off from their respective homes in adjoining provinces, and sent

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as presents to the King by one of his ever

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victorious generals. Under these circumstances, it is not to be

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wondered at that a close intimacy arose between the two

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little captives. Indeed, they soon became sworn friends. Hop Frog, who,

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although he made a great deal of sport, was by

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no means popular, had it not in his power to

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render Tripetta many services. But she, on account of her

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grace and exquisite beauty, although a dwarf, was universally admired

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and petted, so she possessed much influence and never failed

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to use it whenever she could for the benefit of

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hop Frog. On some grand state occasion. I forgot what

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the King determined to have a masquerade, And whenever a

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masquerade or anything of that kind occurred at our court,

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then the talents of both hop Frog and Tripetta were

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sure to be called in to play. Hop Frog in

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a special was so inventive in the way of getting

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up pageants, suggested novel characters, and arranging costumes for masked balls,

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that nothing could be done, it seems, without his assistance.

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The night appointed for the fee had arrived, a gorgeous

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hall had been fitted up under Tripetta's eye with every

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kind of device which could possibly give eclat to a masquerade.

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The whole court was in a fever of expectation. As

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for costumes and characters, it might well be supposed that

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everybody had come to a decision on such points. Many

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had made up their minds as to what roles they

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should assume a week or even a month in advance,

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And in fact there was not a particle of indecision

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anywhere except in the case of the King and his

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seven ministers. Why they hesitated I never could tell, unless

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they did it by way of a joke. More probably,

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they found it difficult, on account of being so fat,

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to make up their minds at all events, time flew

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and as as the last resort, they sent for Tripetta

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and hop Frog. When the two little friends obeyed the

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summons of the King, they found him sitting at his

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wine with seven members of his cabinet council. But the

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monarch appeared to be in a very ill humor. He

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knew that hop Frog was not fond of wine, for

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it excited the poor cripple almost to madness, and madness

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is no comfortable feeling. But the King loved his practical

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jokes and took pleasure in forcing hop Frog to drink.

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Come here, hop frog, said he as the jester and

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his friend entered the room. Swallow this bumper to the

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health of your absent friends. Here hop Frog sighed, and

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then let us have the benefit of your invention. We

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want characters, characters, man, something novel out of the way.

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We are wearied with this everlasting sameness. Come drink the

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wine will brighten your wits. Hop Frog endeavored as usual

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to get up a jest in reply to these advances

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from the king, but the effort was too much. It

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happened to be the poor dwarf's birthday, and the command

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to drink to his absent friends forced the tears to

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his eyes. Many large bitter drops fell into the goblet

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as he took it humbly from the hand of the tyrant.

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A ha, roared the latter, as the dwarf reluctantly drained

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the beaker. See what a glass of good wine can do.

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Why your eyes are shining already, poor fellow, His large

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eyes gleamed rather than shone, for the effect of wine

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on his excitable brain was not more powerful than instantaneous.

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He placed the goblet nervously on the table and looked

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round upon the company with a half insane stare. They

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all seemed highly amused at the success of the king's joke.

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And now to business, said the Prime minister, a very

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fat man. Yes, said the king. Come lend us your assistance. Characters,

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my fine fellow, we stand in need of characters, all

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of us.

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Haaa.

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And as this was seriously meant for a joke, his

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laugh was chorused by the seven hop Frog also laughed,

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although feebly and somewhat vacantly. Come, Come, said the king, impatiently.

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Have you nothing to suggest? I am endeavoring to think

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of something novel, replied the dwarf abstractedly, for he was

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quite bewildered by the wine. Endeavoring, cried the tyrant fiercely,

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What do you mean by that?

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Ah?

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I perceive you are sulky and want more wine? Here,

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drink this, And he poured out another gobletful and offered

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it to the cripple, who merely gazed at it, gasping

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for breath. Drink, I say, shouted monster, or by the fiends.

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The dwarf hesitated. The king grew purple with rage. The

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courtiers smirked. Tripetta, pale as a corpse, advanced to the

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monarch's seat, and, falling on her knees before him, implored

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him to spare her friend. The tyrant regarded her for

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some moments in evident wonder at her audacity, He seemed

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quite at a loss what to do or say, how

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most becomingly to express his indignation. At last, without uttering

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a syllable, he pushed her violently from him, and threw

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the contents of the brimming goblet in her face. The

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poor girl got up the best she could, and, not

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daring even to sigh, resumed her position at the foot

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of the table. There was a dead silence for about

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half a minute, during which the fall of a leaf

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or of a feather might have been heard. It was

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interrupted by a low, but harsh and protracted grating sound,

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which seemed to come at once from every corner of

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the room. What what are you making that noise? For?

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Demanded the King, turning furiously to the dwarf. The latter

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seemed to have recovered in great measure from his intoxication, and,

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looking fixedly but quietly into the tyrant's face, merely ejaculated. Ah,

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I how could it have been me? The sound appeared

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to come from without, observed one of the courtiers. I

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fancy it was the parrot at the window, wetting his

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bill upon his cage wires. True, replied the monarch as

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if much relieved by the suggestion. But on the honor

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of a night, I could have sworn that it was

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the gritting of this vagabond's teeth. Hereupon the dwarf laughed.

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The king was too confirmed a joker to object to

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any one's laughing, and displayed a set of large, powerful,

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and very repulsive teeth. Moreover, he avowed his perfect willingness

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to swallow as much wine as desired. The monarch was pacified,

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and having drained another bumper with no very perceptible ill effect,

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hop Frog entered at once and with spirit into the

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plans for the masquerade. I cannot tell what was the

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association of the idea. Observed he very tranquility, and as

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if he had never tasted wine in his life. But

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just after your majesty had struck the girl and thrown

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the wine in her face, just after your majesty had

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done this, and while the parrot was making that odd

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noise outside the window, there came into my mind a

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capital diversion, one of my own country frolics often enacted

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among us at our masquerades. But here it will be

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new altogether. Unfortunately, however, it requires a company of eight persons,

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and here we are, cried the King, laughing at his

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acute discovery of the coincidence eight to a fraction. I

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and my seven ministers come. What is the diversion we

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call it, replied the cripple the eight chained orangutangs. And

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it really is excellent sport. If well enacted, we will

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enact it, remarked the King, drawing himself up and lowering

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his eyelids. The beauty of the game continued hop Frog

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lies in the fright at occasions among the women. Capital

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roared in chorus. The monarch and his ministry, I will

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equip you as orangutangs preceded the leave all that to me.

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The resemblance shall be so striking that the company of

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masqueraders will take you for real beasts, and of course

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they will be as much terrified as astonished.

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Oh this is.

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Exquisite, exclaimed the King, hop Frog. I will make a

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man of you. The chains are for the purpose of

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increasing the confusion. By their jangling you are supposed to

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have escaped in mass from your keepers. Your majesty cannot

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conceive the effect produced at a masquerade by eight chained orangutangs.

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Imagine to be real ones by most of the company,

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and rushing in with savage cries among the crowd of

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delicately and gorgeously habited men and women. The contrast is inimitable,

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it must be said. The King and the council arose hurriedly,

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as it was growing late, to put in execution the

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scheme of hop Frog. His mode of equipping the party

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as orangutangs, was very simple, but effective enough for his purposes.

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The animals in question had, at the epoch of my

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story very rarely been seen in any part of the

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civilized world, and as the imitations made by the dwarf

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were sufficiently beastlike and more than sufficiently hideous, their truthfulness

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to nature was thus thought to be secured. The King

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and his ministers were first encased in tight fitting stockinet

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shirts and drawers. They were then saturated with tar. At

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this stage of the process, some one of the party

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suggested feathers, but the suggestion was at once overruled by

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the dwarf, who soon convinced the eight by ocular demonstration

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that the hair of such a brute as the orangutang

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was much more efficiently represented by flu a thick coating

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of the latter was accordingly plastered upon the coating of tar.

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A long chain was now procured. First it was passed

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around the waist of the king, and tied then about

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another of the party, and also tied then about all

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successively in the same manner. When this chaining arrangement was complete,

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and the party stood as far apart from each other

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as possible, they formed a circle, and to make things

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appear natural, hop frog passed the residue of the chain

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in two diameters at right angles across the circle, after

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the fashion adopted at the present day by those who

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captured chimpanzees or other large apes in Borneo. The grand

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saloon in which the masquerade was to take place was

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a circular room, very lofty and receiving the light of

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the sun only through a single window at top at night,

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the season and for which the apartment was especially designed.

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It was illuminated principally by a large chandelier, depending by

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a chain from the center of the skylight, and lowered

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or elevated by means of a counterbalance. As usual, but

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in order not to look unsightly, this latter passed outside

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the cupola and over the roof. The arrangements of the

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room had been left to Tripetta's superintendence, but in some

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particulars it seems she had been guided by the calmer

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judgment of her friend the Dwarf, at his suggestion. It

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was that on this occasion the chandelier was removed its

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waxen drippings, which, in whether so warm it was quite

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impossible to prevent, would have been seriously detrimental to the

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rich dresses of the guests, who, on account of the

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crowded state of the saloon, could not all be expected

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to keep from out its center, that is to say,

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from under the shit. Additional sconces were set in various

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parts of the hall out of the war, and a

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The eight Orangutangs, taking Hopfrog's advice, waited patiently until midnight,

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when the room was thoroughly filled with masqueraders, before making

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their appearance. No sooner had the clock ceased striking, however,

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than they rushed, or rather rolled in all together, for

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the impediments of their chains caused most of the party

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to fall and all to stumble as they entered. The

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excitement among the masqueraders was prodigious and filled the heart

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of the king with glee. As had been anticipated, there

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were not a few of the guests who supposed the

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ferocious looking creatures to be beasts of some kind in reality,

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if not precisely orangutangs. Many of the women swooned with affright,

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and had not the king taken the precaution to exclude

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all weapons from the saloon, his party might soon have

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expiated their frolic in their blood. As it was, a

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general rush was made for the doors, but the king

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had ordered them to be locked immediately upon his entrance,

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and at the Dwarf's suggestion, the keys had been deposited

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with him. While the tumult was at its height, and

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each masquerader attentive only to his own safety, for in

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fact there was much real danger from the pressure of

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the excited crowd. The chain by which the chandelier ordinarily hung,

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and which had been drawn up on its removal, might

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have been seen very gradually to descend until its hooked

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extremity came within three feet of the floor. Soon after this,

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the king and his seven friends, having reeled about the

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hall in all directions, found themselves at length in its center,

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and of course in immediate contact with the chain. While

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they were thus situated, the dwarf, who had followed noiselessly

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at their heels, inciting them to keep up the commotion,

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took hold of their own chain at the intersection of

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the two portions, which crossed the circle diametrically and at

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right angles. Here, with the rapidity of thought, he inserted

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the hook from which the chandelier had been wont to depend,

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and in an instant, by some unseen agency, the chandelier

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chain was drawn so far upward as to take the

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hook out of reach, and as an inevitable consequence, to

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drag the orangutangs together in close connection and face to face.

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The masqueraders, by this time had recovered in some measure

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from their alarm, and beginning to regard the whole matter

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as a well contrived pleasantry, set up a loud shout

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of laughter at the predicament of the apes. Leave them

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to me, now, screamed hop Frog, his shrill voice making

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itself easily heard through all the din Leave them to me.

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I fancy I know them. If I can only get

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a good look at them, I can soon tell who

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they are. Here. Scrambling over the heads of the crowd,

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he managed to get to the wall when seizing a

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flambeaux from one of the caryatids. He returned as he

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went to the center of the room, leaping with the

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agility of a monkey upon the king's head, and thence

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clambered a few feet up the chain, holding down the

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torch to examine the group of orangutangs, and still screaming,

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I shall soon find out who they are. And now,

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while the whole assembly the apes included were convulsed with laughter,

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the jester suddenly uttered a shrill whistle when the chain

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flew violently up for about thirty feet, dragging with it

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the dismayed and struggling orangutanes, and leaving them suspended in

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mid air between the skylight and the floor. Hop Frog,

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clinging to the chain as it rose, still maintained his

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relative position in respect to the eight maskers, and still,

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as if nothing were the matter, continued to thrust his

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torch toward them, as though endeavoring to discover who they were.

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So thoroughly astonished was the whole company at this ascent

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that a dead silence of about a minute's duration ensued.

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It was broken by such a low, harsh, grating sound

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as had before attracted the attention of the King and

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as counselors when the former threw the wine in the

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face of Tripetta. But on the present occasion there could

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be no question as to whence the sound issued. It

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came from the fanglike teeth of the dwarf, who ground

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them and gnashed them as he foamed at the mouth

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and glared with an expression of maniacal rage into the

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upturned countenances of the King and his seven companions, Aha

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said at length, the infuriated jesture, Aha, I begin to

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see who these people are now here, pretending to scrutinize

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the king more closely, he held the flambeaux to the

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flaxen coat, which enveloped him, and which instantly burst into

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a sheet of vivid flame. In less than half a minute,

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the whole eight orangutangs were blazing fiercely amid the shrieks

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of the multitude, who gazed at them from below, horror stricken,

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and without the power to remember them the slightest assistance.

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At length, the flames, suddenly increasing in virulence, forced the

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jester to climb higher up the chain to be out

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of their reach, And as he made this movement, the

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crowd again sank for a brief instant into silence. The

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dwarf seized his opportunity and once more spoke, I now

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see you distinctly, He said, what manner of people these

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maskers are? They are a great king and his seven

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privy councilors, a king who does not scruple to strike

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a defense t girl, and his seven counselors who have

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bet him in the outrage. As for myself, I am

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simply hop frog the jester, and this is my last jest.

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Owing to the high combustibility of both the flax and

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made an end of his brief speech. Before the work

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