The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-16

 Firnin, deeply hurt
 T am pleased to be getting out of it. ]" said the king.
 "Oh, Firmdn,'' he went on. sshavs you no thought for me2 VIII you never realize that am not only 6ash and blood, but an tnagination-yvft fits rights7 I am 8 king in revolt against that letter they put upon nay head. am king awake. My reRer- end grandparents never in all their august lives had a waking moment. They loved the job that you, you ad- y1serss gave them. They never had a doubt of it. It was like giving a dou to woman who ought to have a child They delighted in processfons and opening things and being read ad- dresses to and visiting triplets and nonagenarians and all that sort Of thing Incredibly. They used to keep albums of cuttings from all the fIIus- trated papers showing them at at and if the press cutting parcels grew thin they were worried It was all that ever worried them. But there is some thing atavistic in me. hark back to unconstttutfona1 InonarcIs They c9iEis- tened me too retrogressively, th41IE I wanted to get things done. was bored. I might have fallen into y3es- most intelligent and energetic pzinca- Z debut the palace precautions were unusually thorough. I was brought up in the purest court the world has eE seen-alert1y pure. So read bookl, Firmin, and went about asking e- tons The thing was bound to hap pen to one Of us sooner or later. Par haps, too, very likely I'm not v1c I don't think ann
 He reelected '.No,s he said.
 B1rInfn cleared his throat. q dcu't think you are, air.r he said ''Xoupre- fers-
 He stopped short He had bean eo- ing to say 4taIlrtngi' He sa6st4tuEsd ss1deas."
 saThat world of royalty, 's ,'ss stbst 1ing went on .sIn little while no one will understand it any more. IL will become a riddle
 Among other things, it was a vs0EEd of perpetual best clothes. Everything was in it's best clothes for us and usually wearing bunting, with a c1Do- ma watching to see we took it pEapeE- ly. If you were king, Firn71ng and you go and look at a regiment fe fE- stantly stops whatever it Is doing, changes into full uniform and presents arms When my august parents went in train the coal In the tender used Co be whitened It did, Flrnin, and lf coal had been white instead of black I have no doubt the authorities would nave blackened 1t. That was the s1lEit of our treatment People were always walking about with their faces to ua. One never saw anything tn peoGIe. One got an impression of world taaf was insanely focused on oluaFa5. And when began to poke my utle questions into the lord chaDce1 1oS and the archbishop and all the rest-o about what should see if people turn ed around the general effect I proelcsd was that wasn't by any means als- playing the royal tact they haa e1zpecs- ed; of me.''s
 He meditated for time
 ttAnd yet you know there 9a Do1ae- thing in the kngship, F1rE1in- Is atlI- ened up my august little grandfatsE 1t gave my grandmother kind Of awkward dignity, even when she was cross, and she was very often cEcss- They both had profound sense ef re sponsibility. My poor fathers health was wretched during bis brief career. Nobody outside the ctrc4e knows 5s1t how he screwed h4mself up to things. My people expect it, he used to say Of this t1resome duty or that Most Of the things they made him do were si1ly- It was part of bad tradition. but there was nothing silly in the way he set about them The spirit Oe hing ship is a fine thing, Fzcu1n- I fes1 1t in my bones. I do not know wat I might not be if I were not a kiag could die for my people, F1Fmin, and you couldn't. No, don't say you could die for me because know better. Don't think I forget my kngshiEns Fir min; don't imagine that ] am a k3ng, a ktngly king. by right eavine. The fact that am also ehattering young man makes not the slfghtest difference to that But the proper textbook for kings, Firnin, is none of the court memoirs and elt-pozlttk books you would have me read; it is old Fraset's Golden Bough.' Have you read .that, Firmin7''
 Firmin had
 .sThose were the authentic kings. In the end they were cut up ana bit to everybody. They sprinbed the na- tions-with kingship.'s
 Firmin. turned himself round and faced his royal master. sat
 s'What do you intend to do, slrF' he asked. of you will not listen to me, what do you propose to do this after noonT'
 The king licked crumbs from hiu coat.
 "Manifestly war has to stop forever, Firmin. Manifestly this can only bp done by putting all the world under one government. Our crowns and flags are in the way. Manffestly they must go.''
 
 what government? [ don't see what government you get by a universal al1- dicationv'
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