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What do you know about it?" inquired the King.
I'm a lawyer," said the corkscrew, proudly. "I am accustomed to appear
at the bar."
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But you're crooked," retorted the King, "and that debars you. You may
be a corking good lawyer, Mr. Popp, but I must ask you to withdraw your
remarks."
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Very well," said the corkscrew, sadly; "I see I haven't any pull at this
court."
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Permit me," continued the flatiron, "to press my suit, your Majesty. I do
not wish to gloss over any fault the prisoner may have committed, if such
a fault exists; but we owe her some consideration, and that's flat!"
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I'd like to hear from Prince Karver," said the King.
At this a stately carvingknife stepped forward and bowed.
The Captain was wrong to bring this girl here, and she was wrong to
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come," he said. "But now that the foolish deed is done let us all prove
our mettle and have a slashing good time."
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That's it! that's it!" screamed a fat choppingknife. "We'll make
mincemeat of the girl and hash of the chicken and sausage of the dog!"
There was a shout of approval at this and the King had to rap again for
order.
"
Gentlemen, gentlemen!" he said, "your remarks are somewhat cutting
and rather disjointed, as might be expected from such acute intellects.
But you give me no reasons for your demands."
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See here, Kleaver; you make me tired," said a saucepan, strutting before
the King very impudently. "You're about the worst King that ever reigned
in Utensia, and that's saying a good deal. Why don't you run things
yourself, instead of asking everybody's advice, like the big, clumsy idiot
you are?"
The King sighed.
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I wish there wasn't a saucepan in my kingdom," he said. "You fellows
are always stewing, over something, and every once in a while you slop
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