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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

CHAPTER XI
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They don't respect anything, they don't care for anything or anybody.

They say "Go up, baldhead" to the prophet going his unoffending way in the gray of antiquity; they sass me in the holy gloom of the Middle Ages; and I had seen them act the same way in Buchanan's administration; I remember, because I was there and helped.

The prophet had his bears and settled with his boys; and I wanted to get down and settle with mine, but it wouldn't answer, because I couldn't have got up again.

I hate a country without a derrick..


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