KING ARTHUR'S COURT
T HE moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common-looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confidential way:
"Friend, do me a kindness. Do you belong to the asylum, or are you just here on a visit or something like that?"
He looked me over stupidly, and said:
" Marry, fair sir, me seemeth--"
"That will do," I said; "I reckon you are a patient."
I moved away, cogitating, and at the same time keeping an eye out for any chance passenger in his right mind that might come along and give me some light. I judged I had found one, presently; so I drew him aside and said in his ear:
"If I could see the head keeper a minute--only just a minute--"
"Prithee do not let me."
"Let you what?"
"Hinder me, then, if the word please thee better." Then he went on to say he was an under-cook and could not stop to gossip, though he would like it another time; for it would comfort his very liver
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Publication information:
Book title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Contributors: Mark Twain - Author.
Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1917.
Page number: 13.
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