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The
little
King
stood
,
alert
but
at
graceful
ease
,
and
caught
and
turned
aside
the
thick
rain
of
blows
with
a
facility
and
precision
which
set
the
motley
on-lookers
wild
with
admiration
;
and
every
now
and
then
,
when
his
practised
eye
detected
an
opening
,
and
a
lightning-swift
rap
upon
Hugo
's
head
followed
as
a
result
,
the
storm
of
cheers
and
laughter
that
swept
the
place
was
something
wonderful
to
hear
.
At
the
end
of
fifteen
minutes
,
Hugo
,
all
battered
,
bruised
,
and
the
target
for
a
pitiless
bombardment
of
ridicule
,
slunk
from
the
field
;
and
the
unscathed
hero
of
the
fight
was
seized
and
borne
aloft
upon
the
shoulders
of
the
joyous
rabble
to
the
place
of
honour
beside
the
Ruffler
,
where
with
vast
ceremony
he
was
crowned
King
of
the
Game-Cocks
;
his
meaner
title
being
at
the
same
time
solemnly
cancelled
and
annulled
,
and
a
decree
of
banishment
from
the
gang
pronounced
against
any
who
should
thenceforth
utter
it
.
All
attempts
to
make
the
King
serviceable
to
the
troop
had
failed
.
He
had
stubbornly
refused
to
act
;
moreover
,
he
was
always
trying
to
escape
.
He
had
been
thrust
into
an
unwatched
kitchen
,
the
first
day
of
his
return
;
he
not
only
came
forth
empty-handed
,
but
tried
to
rouse
the
housemates
.
He
was
sent
out
with
a
tinker
to
help
him
at
his
work
;
he
would
not
work
;
moreover
,
he
threatened
the
tinker
with
his
own
soldering-iron
;
and
finally
both
Hugo
and
the
tinker
found
their
hands
full
with
the
mere
matter
of
keeping
his
from
getting
away
.
He
delivered
the
thunders
of
his
royalty
upon
the
heads
of
all
who
hampered
his
liberties
or
tried
to
force
him
to
service
.
He
was
sent
out
,
in
Hugo
's
charge
,
in
company
with
a
slatternly
woman
and
a
diseased
baby
,
to
beg
;
but
the
result
was
not
encouraging
--
he
declined
to
plead
for
the
mendicants
,
or
be
a
party
to
their
cause
in
any
way
.
Thus
several
days
went
by
;
and
the
miseries
of
this
tramping
life
,
and
the
weariness
and
sordidness
and
meanness
and
vulgarity
of
it
,
became
gradually
and
steadily
so
intolerable
to
the
captive
that
he
began
at
last
to
feel
that
his
release
from
the
hermit
's
knife
must
prove
only
a
temporary
respite
from
death
,
at
best
.
But
at
night
,
in
his
dreams
,
these
things
were
forgotten
,
and
he
was
on
his
throne
,
and
master
again
.
This
,
of
course
,
intensified
the
sufferings
of
the
awakening
--
so
the
mortifications
of
each
succeeding
morning
of
the
few
that
passed
between
his
return
to
bondage
and
the
combat
with
Hugo
,
grew
bitterer
and
bitterer
,
and
harder
and
harder
to
bear
.
The
morning
after
that
combat
,
Hugo
got
up
with
a
heart
filled
with
vengeful
purposes
against
the
King
.
He
had
two
plans
,
in
particular
.
One
was
to
inflict
upon
the
lad
what
would
be
,
to
his
proud
spirit
and
'
imagined
'
royalty
,
a
peculiar
humiliation
;
and
if
he
failed
to
accomplish
this
,
his
other
plan
was
to
put
a
crime
of
some
kind
upon
the
King
,
and
then
betray
him
into
the
implacable
clutches
of
the
law
.
In
pursuance
of
the
first
plan
,
he
purposed
to
put
a
'
clime
'
upon
the
King
's
leg
;
rightly
judging
that
that
would
mortify
him
to
the
last
and
perfect
degree
;
and
as
soon
as
the
clime
should
operate
,
he
meant
to
get
Canty
's
help
,
and
force
the
King
to
expose
his
leg
in
the
highway
and
beg
for
alms
.
'
Clime
'
was
the
cant
term
for
a
sore
,
artificially
created
.
To
make
a
clime
,
the
operator
made
a
paste
or
poultice
of
unslaked
lime
,
soap
,
and
the
rust
of
old
iron
,
and
spread
it
upon
a
piece
of
leather
,
which
was
then
bound
tightly
upon
the
leg
.
This
would
presently
fret
off
the
skin
,
and
make
the
flesh
raw
and
angry-looking
;
blood
was
then
rubbed
upon
the
limb
,
which
,
being
fully
dried
,
took
on
a
dark
and
repulsive
colour
.
Then
a
bandage
of
soiled
rags
was
put
on
in
a
cleverly
careless
way
which
would
allow
the
hideous
ulcer
to
be
seen
,
and
move
the
compassion
of
the
passer-by
.
Hugo
got
the
help
of
the
tinker
whom
the
King
had
cowed
with
the
soldering-iron
;
they
took
the
boy
out
on
a
tinkering
tramp
,
and
as
soon
as
they
were
out
of
sight
of
the
camp
they
threw
him
down
and
the
tinker
held
him
while
Hugo
bound
the
poultice
tight
and
fast
upon
his
leg
.
The
King
raged
and
stormed
,
and
promised
to
hang
the
two
the
moment
the
sceptre
was
in
his
hand
again
;
but
they
kept
a
firm
grip
upon
him
and
enjoyed
his
impotent
struggling
and
jeered
at
his
threats
.
This
continued
until
the
poultice
began
to
bite
;
and
in
no
long
time
its
work
would
have
been
perfected
,
if
there
had
been
no
interruption
.
But
there
was
;
for
about
this
time
the
'
slave
'
who
had
made
the
speech
denouncing
England
's
laws
,
appeared
on
the
scene
,
and
put
an
end
to
the
enterprise
,
and
stripped
off
the
poultice
and
bandage
.
