i will not ask you if you have anything to say but will you pay that is the question grief shook his head in the meantime went on consider yourself a prisoner at large there is no in which to confine you and finally it has come to the knowledge of the court that at an early hour of this morning the did and deliberately send in his employ out on the to catch fish for breakfast this is distinctly an of the rights of the of home must be protected this conduct of the is severely by the court and on any repetition of the the and all and sundry shall be immediately put to hard labour on the improvement of the road the court is dismissed as they left the compound peter a son of the sun grief to look where on the the s shirt stretched and already the royal fat iv the thing is clear said peter at a conference in s house has about gathered in all the coin in the meantime he keeps the king going on the gin he s captured on our vessels as soon as he can it he ll take the cash and skin out on your craft or mine he is a low fellow declared pausing in the of his spectacles he is a scoundrel and a he should be struck by a dead pig by a particularly dead pig the very thing said grief he shall be struck by a dead pig i should not be surprised if you were the man to strike him with the dead pig be sure and select a particularly dead one is down at the boat house a case of my scotch i m going up to the palace to work kitchen politics the feathers of the sun with the queen in the meantime you get a few things on your shelves from the store room i ll lend you some and you peter see the german store start in all of you selling for paper remember i ll back the losses if i m not mistaken in three days we ll have a national council or a revolution you start messengers around the island to the and farmers everywhere even to the mountain goat hunters tell them to at the palace three days from now but the soldiers objected i ll take care of them they haven t been paid for two months besides is the queen s brother don t have too much on your shelves at a time as soon as the soldiers show up with paper stop selling then will they bum the stores said let them king will pay for it if they do will he pay for my shirt demanded that is purely a personal and private a son of the sun ter between you and grief answered it s beginning to split up the back the lamented i noticed that much this morning when he hadn t had it on ten minutes it cost me thirty shillings and i only wore it once where shall i get a dead pig asked kill one of course said grief kill a small one a small one is worth ten shillings then enter it in your under expenses grief paused a moment if you want it particularly dead it would be well to kill it at once ti you have spoken well said queen this has brought a madness with him and is drowned in gin if he does not grant the big council i shall give him a beating he is easy to beat when he is in drink the feathers of the sun s she doubled up her fist and such were her proportions and the determination in her face that grief knew the council would be called so akin was the tongue to the that he spoke it like a native and you he said have pointed out that the soldiers have demanded coin and refused the paper has them tell them to take the paper and see that they be paid to morrow why trouble objected the king remains happily drunk there is much money in the treasury and i am content in my house are two cases of gin and much goods from s store excellent pig o my brother has not spoken have you no ears when the gin and the goods in your house are gone and no more come with gin and goods and feathers of the sun has run away to with all the cash money of what then will you do cash money is silver and gold but paper is only paper i tell you the people are grumbling there is no fish in a son op the sun the palace and sweet potatoes seem to have fled from the soil for they come not the mountain have sent no wild goat in a week though feathers of the sun the to buy at the old price the people sell not for they will have none of the paper money only to day have i sent messengers to twenty houses there are no eggs has feathers of the sun put a upon the i do not know all i know is that there are no eggs well it is that those who drink much eat little else would there be a palace famine tell your soldiers to receive their pay let it be in his paper money and remember grief warned though there be selling in the stores when the soldiers come with their paper it will be refused and in three days will be the council and feathers of the sun will be as dead as a dead pig vi the day of the council found the population of the island crowded into the capital by and on foot and donkey back the feathers of the sun the five thousand inhabitants of had in the three intervening 