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Updated: May 16, 2025
There was a certain king called Hkrikros, who had a fearful temper and no immediate successor in his own family; his married sister, however, had provided him with a large stock of nephews from which to select his heir. And the most eligible and royally-approved of all these nephews was the sixteen-year-old Vespaluus.
Now Hkrikros was a Pagan of the first water, and kept the worship of the sacred serpents, who lived in a hallowed grove on a hill near the royal palace, up to a high pitch of enthusiasm.
"'I'll cut off your head first, with any axe that comes handy, said Vespaluus indignantly; 'do you suppose that I'm going to begin my reign by mortally affronting the sacred serpents? It would be most unlucky. "'But your Majesty's Christian principles? exclaimed the bewildered Chamberlain. "'I never had any, said Vespaluus; 'I used to pretend to be a Christian convert just to annoy Hkrikros.
The Librarian lingered for many days in fact, for all I know, he may have ultimately recovered, but Hkrikros died that same evening. Vespaluus had hardly finished getting the honey stains off his body before a hurried deputation came to put the coronation oil on his head.
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