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and stated the case. You don't know kings, Jim, but I know them; and this old rip of ourn is one of the cleanest I've struck in history. Well, Henry be takes a notion he wants to get up some trouble with this country. How does he go at it—give notice?—give the country a show? No. All of a
HENRY THE EIGHTH IN BOSTON HARBOR.
sudden he heaves all the tea in Boston Harbour overboard, and whacks out a declaration of independence, and dares them to come on. That was his style—he never give anybody a chance. He had suspicions of his father, the Duke of Wellington. Well, what did he do?—ask him to show up? No—drownded him
