But Donjalolo's wives were so nicely drilled, that for the most part, things went on very smoothly.

Nor were his brows much furrowed with wrinkles referable to domestic cares and tribulations.

Although, as in due time will be seen, from these he was not altogether exempt.
Now, according to Braid-Beard, who, among other abstruse political researches, had accurately informed himself concerning the internal administration of Donjalolo's harem, the following was the method pursued therein.
On the Aquella, or First Night of the month, the queen of that name assumes her diadem, and reigns.

So too with Azzolino the Second, and Velluvi the Third Night of the Moon; and so on, even unto the utter eclipse thereof; through Calends, Nones, and Ides.
For convenience, the king is furnished with a card, whereon are copied the various ciphers upon the arms of his queens; and parallel thereto, the hieroglyphics significant of the corresponding Nights of the month.

Glancing over this, Donjalolo predicts the true time of the rising and setting of all his stars.
This Moon of wives was lodged in two spacious seraglios, which few mortals beheld.