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It will be your turn soon to take the same journey and find out where Bambooland lies." And, indeed, before the week was out, Simplex's curiosity was satisfied, and he had no need to bother his head about the matter any more. When his turn came he was led to the Kaimakan. The Kaimakan was a fat-faced, big-bellied man who loved his joke.
The reason why pretty, unhappy Michal no longer heard the field-trumpet in the courtyard was because Pirka had already sent off Simplex to seek the beloved of Michal's heart; for the old witch had already discovered that this beloved was Simplex's bosom friend but that was all. Let her find out the truth for herself! What else was she a witch for?
The sheriff made a note thereof, and took the deposited gulden, at the same time calling Simplex's attention to the fact that as the city found the lances, each of the combatants would have to pay a Hungarian gulden extra for every lance that broke in his hand.
At this the soles of his feet were belabored still more poor Simplex really thought his last hour had come. Then followed the third examination. The Kaimakan ordered poor Simplex's swollen and lacerated soles to be well rubbed with soothing balsam, told the soldiers to give him a cooling drink, and then began to address him still more amicably. "Look now, my dear son! Why talk such nonsense?
But Simplex's companions bade him fear nothing. These were only bears' dens, they said. Mother Bruin was too much engaged at this season in suckling her young to bestow much attention on those who did not wantonly attack her. Yet Simplex, for all that, had not the slightest wish to make the acquaintance of a monster which is, perhaps, a still more dreadful enemy than even a robber.
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