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'E needs a little cheerin', awfter the mess 'e's made o' things! 'For trying to put before a member of the Government a statement of the injustice 'That ain't why they're in gaol. It's fur ringin' wot's-'is-name's door-bell. 'Kickin' up rows in the street 'Oh, you shut up, says the old champion, out of patience. 'You've 'ad 'arf a pint too much.
"We were smoking, as I said, awfter dinner. I was remarking to Sir Harry that we were having a very good voyage over, when, as he turned to reply, an orderly rode up to us and saluted." "Rode rode rode up!" murmured Curly. "How could he?" "Let him alone," said Uncle Jim. "Didn't he say he couldn't remember whether he was in the Army or the Navy? The horse goes."
The palm wine itself caused the King to cut a pretty caper now and then; but awfter his mistake, he was far worse far, far worse. He never got over that, never." "What happened to him?" "A most extraordinary thing. I never knew of anything like it in all the world. "You see, there were two trees which grew close together near the royal palace. One of these was his Majesty's private drinking tree.
In short, he valued them at once far more than all the gold in the valley; and he wound up by telling us flat, that so long as we could make bubbles for him, there would be no sacrifice. He commanded us to appear before him every day and make these bubbles Sir Harry showed him how to do it with his pipe every morning and awfternoon. "Awfter he'd gone, Sir Harry and I looked at each other.
"It was thus, gentlemen, that I acquired, by right, as I think, my title which I assumed awfter acting for a time as Viceroy for her Britannic Majesty as the King of Gee-Whiz. For a while I lived there alone. Awfterwards, in some way, which I do not quite call to mind at present, I appear to have been discovered. It was shortly awfter that I received my decoration I beg your pardon."
You go ahead, sir; we'll look awfter Chips, and keep him in order; never fear!" "I hope you will, for your own sakes," I retorted significantly, leaving them to interpret my meaning as they chose. "My next condition," I continued, "is that the cabin and the staterooms are to be left to the exclusive use of the lady and myself, the steward only being allowed access to them.
I say to you, positively and truthfully, that then and there the island of Gee-Whiz was inhabited by the maddest population ever known in any possession of her Britannic Majesty." "Reckon they was a pretty lively bunch to hold," suggested Curly; "but what happened next?" "I am not quite clear as to all that transpired awfter that. I know that I was the only sane man left on the island."
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