To-morrow I also shall be in church, and will listen." "Then you intend to remain Whitsun King this year also ?" "I shall not be wanting to myself, noble sir.

This is only the sixth year that I have been Whitsun King." "And do you know how many buckets of wine you have drunk during that period, and how many guests you have chucked out of feasts, sow-dances,[5] and banquets ?" [Footnote 5: A dance given at sow-slaughtering time.] "I cannot say, noble sir.

My one thought was not to miss one of them, and so much I may say, neither man nor wine has ever floored me." "Mr.Notary, read to him how many pitchers of wine and how many broken heads stand to his account!" And it appeared from the register that Martin, during the year of his Whitsun Kingship, had cost the community seventy-two firkins of wine, and more than a hundred heads broken for fun.

He had also made an innkeeper quite a rich man by smashing all his glasses every week, which the town paid for.
"And now, answer me further, little brother: How many times have your horses come to grief ?" "I have not troubled myself about them.

I leave all that to my underlings." "How many girls have you befooled ?" "Why should they let themselves be befooled ?" "How much of ill-gotten goods has passed through your hands ?" "Nobody has ever caught me." "But thy Whitsun Kingship has cost the town a pretty penny." "I know this much, that it does not come out of the coffers of the town, but out of the pockets of our dear father, the noble John Karpathy, whose worthy phiz I see hanging up on the wall yonder.