Servile, yet audacious senators! thus prospectively to administrate away the inalienable rights of posterity.

But while yet unborn, the people of Valapee had been deprived of more than they now sought to wrest from their descendants.

And former Peepies, infant and adult, had received homage more profound, than Peepi the Present.
Witness the demeanor of the chieftains of old, upon every new investiture of the royal serpent.

In a fever of loyalty, they were wont to present themselves before the heir to the isle, to go through with the court ceremony of the Pupera; a curious proceeding, so called: inverted endeavors to assume an erect posture: the nasal organ the base.
It was to the frequent practice of this ceremony, that most intelligent observers imputed the flattened noses of the elderly chiefs of the island; who, nevertheless, much gloried therein.
It was these chiefs, also, who still observed the old-fashioned custom of retiring from the presence of royalty with their heads between their thighs; so that while advancing in the contrary direction, their faces might be still deferentially turned toward their lord and master.

A fine view of him did they obtain.