Subject for May, 2016
Chapter 24 – A Rival Magician
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
MY influence in the Valley of Holiness was something prodigious now. It seemed worth while to try to turn it to some valuable account. The thought came to me the next morning, a...
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Chapter 23 – Restoration of the Fountain
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
SATURDAY noon I went to the well and looked on a while. Merlin was still burning smoke-powders, and pawing the air, and muttering gibberish as hard as ever, but looking pretty d...
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Chapter 22 – The Holy Fountain
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
THE pilgrims were human beings. Otherwise they would have acted differently. They had come a long and difficult journey, and now when the journey was nearly finished, and they l...
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Chapter 21 – The Pilgrims
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
WHEN I did get to bed at last I was unspeakably tired; the stretching out, and the relaxing of the long-tense muscles, how luxurious, how delicious! but that was as far as I cou...
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Chapter 20 – The Ogre’s Castle
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
BETWEEN six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple — man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limp...
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Chapter 19 – Knight-Errantry as a Trade
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
SANDY and I were on the road again, next morning, bright and early. It was so good to open up one’s lungs and take in whole luscious barrels-ful of the blessed God’s...
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Chapter 18 – In The Queen’s Dungeons
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
WELL, I arranged all that; and I had the man sent to his home. I had a great desire to rack the executioner; not because he was a good, painstaking and paingiving official, R...
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Chapter 17 – A Royal Banquet
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
MADAME, seeing me pacific and unresentful, no doubt judged that I was deceived by her excuse; for her fright dissolved away, and she was soon so importunate to have me give an e...
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Chapter 16 – Morgan Le Fay
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
IF knights errant were to be believed, not all castles were desirable places to seek hospitality in. As a matter of fact, knights errant were NOT persons to be believed — ...
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Chapter 15 – Sandy’s Tale
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
AND so I’m proprietor of some knights,” said I, as we rode off. “Who would ever have supposed that I should live to list up assets of that sort. I shan’t...
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