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? ? ? ? "I didn' know dey was so many un um. I hain't hearn 'bout none un um, skasely, but old King Sollermun, onless you counts dem kings dat's in a pack er k'yards. How much do a king git?"

? ? ? ? "Get?" I says; "why, they get a thousand dollars a month if they want it; they can have just as much as they want; everything belongs to them."

? ? ? ? "Ain't dat gay? En what dey got to do, Huck?"

? ? ? ? "They don't do nothing! Why how you talk. They just set around."

? ? ? ? "No- is dat so?"

? ? ? ? "Of course it is. They just set around. Except maybe when there's a war; then they go to the war. But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking- just hawking and sp- Sh!- d'you hear a noise?"

? ? ? ? We skipped out and looked; but it warn't nothing but the flutter of a steamboat's wheel, away down coming around the point; so we come back.

? ? ? ? "Yes," says I, "and other times, when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off.


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