. The century illustrated monthly magazine . t turnednight to noonday and showed a thousandacres of human beings groveling on the groundin a general collapse of consternation. Well,it rained mortar and masonry the rest of theweek. This was the report; but I reckon theyadded on a couple of days. It was an effective miracle. That greatbothersome temporary population were a good many thousand tracks inthe mud the next morning, but they were alloutward bound. If I had advertised anothermiracle I could nt have raised an audiencewith a sheriff. Merlins stock was flat. The king wantedt
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . t turnednight to noonday and showed a thousandacres of human beings groveling on the groundin a general collapse of consternation. Well,it rained mortar and masonry the rest of theweek. This was the report; but I reckon theyadded on a couple of days. It was an effective miracle. That greatbothersome temporary population were a good many thousand tracks inthe mud the next morning, but they were alloutward bound. If I had advertised anothermiracle I could nt have raised an audiencewith a sheriff. Merlins stock was flat. The king wantedto stop his wages; he even wanted to banishhim, but I interfered. I said he would be use-ful to work the weather, and attend to smallmatters like that, and I would give him a liftnow and then when his poor little parlor-magicsoured on him. There was nt a rag of his towerleft, but I had the government rebuild it forhim, and advised him to take boarders; buthe was too high-toned for that. He was a A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHURS COURT. 77. THE YANKEE S RECEPTION IN ARTHURDOM. rather hard lot, take him how you might; butthen you could nt fairly expect a man to besweet that had been set back so. [A few chapters are here devoted to the events ofthe next two or three years. The closing incidentis a misunderstanding at a tournament, where theYankee makes a remark about Sir Dinadan theHumorist which Sir Sagramour le Desirous imagineswas meant for him, wherefore he challenges theYankee to mortal combat, this fight to take placewhen Sir Sagramour gets back from seeking theHoly Grail — an expedition which usually occupiesseveral years and does nt result in any Holy Grail,either. Meantime the Yankee is very busy; for hehas privately set himself the task of introducing thegreat and beneficent civilization of the nineteenthcentury, and of peacefully replacing the twin des-potisms of royalty and aristocratic privilege with aRepublic on the American plan when Arthur shallhave passed to h
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