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OR, THE ART OF GOVERNING MEN
A TALE OF ALL NATIONS
I
KING BIZARRE AND PRINCE CHARMING
ag |N the kingdom of Wild Oats, a happy country, a
mw} land blessed of Heaven, where the men are always
right and the women never wrong, there lived long
ago a king who thought of nothing but the happiness of
his kingdom, and who, it is said, never was dull for lack
of amusement. Whether he was beloved by his people is
doubtful; it is certain that the courtiers had little esteem
and less love for their prince. For this reason, they had
given him the surname of King Bizarre, the only title by
which he is known in history, as is seen in the Great Chron¬
icles of the Kingdoms and Principalities of the World Which
Have Never Existed, a learned masterpiece which has im¬
mortalized the erudition and criticism of the reverend
father, Dr. Melchisedec de Mentiras y Necedad.
Left a widower after a year’s marriage, Bizarre had fixed
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