Subject for May, 2016
Chapter 34 – The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
WELL, what had I better do? Nothing in a hurry, sure. I must get up a diversion; anything to employ me while I could think, and while these poor fellows could have a chance to c...
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Chapter 33 – Sixth Century Political Economy
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
HOWEVER, I made a dead set at him, and before the first third of the dinner was reached, I had him happy again. It was easy to do — in a country of ranks and castes. You s...
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Chapter 32 – Dowley’s Humiliation
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
WELL, when that cargo arrived toward sunset, Saturday afternoon, I had my hands full to keep the Marcos from fainting. They were sure Jones and I were ruined past help, and they...
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Chapter 31 – Marco
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
WE strolled along in a sufficiently indolent fashion now, and talked. We must dispose of about the amount of time it ought to take to go to the little hamlet of Abblasoure and p...
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Chapter 30 – The Tragedy of the Manor-House
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
AT midnight all was over, and we sat in the presence of four corpses. We covered them with such rags as we could find, and started away, fastening the door behind us. Their hom...
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Chapter 29 – The Smallpox Hut
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
WHEN we arrived at that hut at mid-afternoon, we saw no signs of life about it. The field near by had been denuded of its crop some time before, and had a skinned look, so exhau...
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Chapter 28 – Drilling the King
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
ON the morning of the fourth day, when it was just sunrise, and we had been tramping an hour in the chill dawn, I came to a resolution: the king MUST be drilled; things could no...
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Chapter 27 – The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
ABOUT bedtime I took the king to my private quarters to cut his hair and help him get the hang of the lowly raiment he was to wear. The high classes wore their hair banged acros...
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Chapter 26 – The First Newspaper
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
WHEN I told the king I was going out disguised as a petty freeman to scour the country and familiarize myself with the humbler life of the people, he was all afire with the nove...
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Chapter 25 – A Competitive Examination
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
WHEN the king traveled for change of air, or made a progress, or visited a distant noble whom he wished to bankrupt with the cost of his keep, part of the administration moved w...
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