them all in a book, and called it Domesday Book — which was a good name and stated the case.

You don’t know kings, Jim, but I know them; and this old rip of ourn is one of the cleanest I’ve struck in history.

Well, Henry he takes a notion he wants to get up some trouble with this country. How does he go at it — give notice? — give the country a show? No. All of a sudden he heaves all the tea in Boston Harbor overboard, and whacks out a declaration of independence, and dares them to come on. That was his style — he never give anybody a chance. He had suspicions of his father, the Duke of Wellington. Well, what did he do? Ask him to show up? No — drownded him in a butt of mamsey, like a cat.

S’pose people left money laying around where he was —