[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]@TWC D-Link book
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

CHAPTER XXIV
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It was running water, too.
It came in, and went out, through the ancient pipes.

The old abbot kept his word, and was the first to try it.

He went down black and shaky, leaving the whole black community above troubled and worried and full of bodings; but he came back white and joyful, and the game was made! another triumph scored.
It was a good campaign that we made in that Valley of Holiness, and I was very well satisfied, and ready to move on now, but I struck a disappointment.

I caught a heavy cold, and it started up an old lurking rheumatism of mine.

Of course the rheumatism hunted up my weakest place and located itself there.


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