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...e in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ...ixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other civiliza tions of far later times, it is safe to consi... ...ss of his company — for he did all the talking. We fell together, as modest people will, in the tail of the herd that was being shown through, and he... ...s?” I said I had not heard of it. He was so little interested — just as when people speak of the weather — that he did not notice whether I made him ... ...t. Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too — I know that; but when I left America it had disapp... ... remote England of my birth time, the sheep witted earl who could claim long descent from a king’s leman, ac quired at second hand from the slums of ... ... which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus W ard. It was about a humoro...