By Mark Twain
The unconventional starts off with Tom Canty, an impoverished boy dwelling together with his abusive kin in London. someday Tom Canty and Prince Edward, the son of King Henry VIII and Jane Seymour meet and as a jest, swap outfits. whereas wearing the pauper's rags, the Prince leaves the palace to punish the shield who knocked Tom down. although, the lads glance remarkably alike and since they swap outfits, the palace guards throw the prince out into the road. The Prince fares poorly in London simply because he insists on proclaiming his identification because the precise Prince of Wales. in the meantime regardless of Tom's repeated denial of his birthright, the courtroom and the King insist that he's the real prince long gone mad. Edward ultimately runs into Tom's relations and a gang of thieves and Twain illustrates England's unfair and barbaric justice process. After the loss of life of Henry VIII, Edward interrupts Tom's coronation and the lads clarify, change locations, and Edward is topped King of britain. (non illustrated)
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The others began to tell their stories too. One of these stories was very sad. "I was a farmer," began a man whom everybody called Yokel. "I had a kind wife and nice children. Now I have neither a wife nor children. They are dead. I am glad that they died. 1 One of them died and the doctors did not know why. So by the English law she was burned for a witch2 and my children stood and looked how it was done. English law! Stand up, all of you, raise your cups and drink to the kind English law3 that killed a honest woman!
He found it at last. It was a big old knife. He sat down at the fire and began to look at the knife. He was looking at the knife and talking aloud at the same time. "It was his father that did it all,"3 he said. "He had turned us out and made us homeless. " The hermit came to the sleeping boy. He raised his hand with the knife in it. Then he thought: "It is long past midnight. I don't want him to cry out. Somebody may pass and hear him. " He found some rags and came up to the sleeping king with them.
1 the First Lord of the Bedchamber — первый лорд опочивальни the First Lord of Windsor Forest — главный лесничий Виндзорского леса 3 the Chancellor Royal of Lancaster — королевский канцлер герцогства Ланкастерского 4 the Master of Wardrobe — хранитель королевской одежды 5 the Constable of the Tower — комендант Тауэра 6 the Lord High Admiral of England — первый лорд адмиралтейства 7 the Archbishop of Canterbury — архиепископ Кентерберийский 2 40 Each part of his clothes went through this slow process: one lord passed it to another and so on.