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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 Chronicles of the Kingdoms and Principalities of the World Which Have Never Existed, a learned masterpiece which has immortalized 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 145
