? ? ? ? So they got some paper and a pen, and the king he set down and twisted his head to one side, and chawed his tongue, and scrawled off something; and then they give the pen to the duke- and then for the first time, the duke looked sick. But he took the pen and wrote. So then the lawyer turns to the new old gentleman and says:
? ? ? ? "You and your brother please write a line or two and sign your names."
? ? ? ? The old gentleman wrote, but nobody couldn't read it. The lawyer looked powerful astonished, and says:
? ? ? ? "Well, it beats me"- and snaked a lot of old letters out of his pocket, and examined them, and then examined the old man's writing, and then them again; and then says: "These old letters is from Harvey Wilks; and here's these two's handwritings, and anybody can see they didn't write them" (the king and the duke looked sold and foolish, I tell you, to see how the lawyer had took them in), "and here's this old gentleman's handwriting, and anybody can tell, easy enough, he didn't write them- fact is, the scratches he makes ain't properly writing, at all.
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