Chapter 39

Chapter 39

THE YANKEE'S FIGHT WITH THE KNIGHTS

HOME again, at Camelot. A morning or two later I found the paper, damp from the press, by my plate at the breakfast table. I turned to the advertising columns, knowing I should find something of personal interest to me there. It was this:

DE PAR LE ROI
DE PAR LE ROI. Know that the great lord and illustrious Kni8ht, SIR SAGRAMOR LE DESIROUS naving condescended to meet the King's Minister, Hank Morgan, the which is surnamed The Boss, for satisfaction of offence anciently given, these will engage in the lists by Camelot about the fourth hour of the morning of the sixteenth day of this next succeeding month. The battle will be à l'outrance, sith the said offence was of a deadly sort, admitting of no composition. DE PAR LE ROI

Clarence's editorial reference to this affair was to this effect: *

*[EDITORS NOTE - THE FOLLOWING IS THE SCANNED IN ILLUSTRATION - THE TYPO"S ARE ALL AS TWAIN INTERJECTED THEM] thdrew. |It will be observed, by a gl7nce at our |our disppointm work maintained |advertising columns, that the community |Promptly and- there since, soon|is to be favored with a treat of unusual |two of their felo listic have writh|interest in the tournament line. |erlain, and o oked interest |The names of the artists are warrant of |ers have already upon the ev n |good enterTainment. The box-office |spoken, you' ve been m d |will be open at noon of the 13th; admission |furnisned for oy the an s, |3 cents, reserved seats 5; proceeds |their use, ent out ch by |to go to the hospital fund The |make and terian B |and|royal pair and all the Court will be present.|the kind some young men |With these exceptions, and the |letters of our under the|press and the clergy, the free list is strictly|of introd i guidance of the|susended. Parties are hereby warned |duction what or aid in a known|against buying tickets of speculators; |they are un ie great enterprise|they will not be good at the door. |ing friends to us of making pure |Everybodv knows and likes The Boss, |ried, and leave the esent |everybody knows and likes Sir Sag.; |thotkind words and wovement had its|come, let us give the lads a good sendoff. |which you, my joy- origin in preven|ReMember, the proceeds go to a |hind; and it is a has ever been a |great and free charity, and one whose |home matter b sions in our |broad benevolence stretches out its helping |it is our durp on of Mis- |hand, warm with the blood of a loving |direct them to other one |heart, to all that suffer, regardless of |now under the ospel, |race, creed, condition or color -- the |g field sg as ar by- |only charity yet established in the earth |These young me e |which has no politico-religious stopcock |are warm-hearted The |on its compassion, but says Here |azirl, regions bey the same |flows the stream, let all come and |not to "build co represent |drink! Turn out, all hands! fetch along |ond,',and the ized thirty of --