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The Prince andthe Pauper

by Mark TwainStyled by LimpidSoft2

ContentsThe Great Seal1CHAPTER I. The birth of thePrince and the Pauper.4CHAPTER II. Tom’s early life.73

CHAPTER III. Tom’s meetingwith the Prince.22CHAPTER IV. The Prince’s troubles begin.44CHAPTER V. Tom as a Patrician.57CHAPTER VI. Tom receives instructions.81CHAPTER VII. Tom’s first royaldinner.106CHAPTER VIII. The Question ofthe Seal.118CHAPTER IX. The river pageant.1274

CHAPTER X. The Prince in thetoils.136CHAPTER XI. At Guildhall.164CHAPTER XII. The Prince andhis Deliverer.180CHAPTER XIII. The disappearance of the Prince.216CHAPTER XIV. ’Le Roi est mort–vive le Roi.’231CHAPTER XV. Tom as King.268CHAPTER XVI. The State Dinner. 3075

CHAPTER XVII. Foo-foo the First. 317CHAPTER XVIII. The Princewith the Tramps.351CHAPTER XIX. The Prince withthe peasants.377CHAPTER XX. The Prince andthe hermit.396CHAPTER XXI. Hendon to therescue.417CHAPTER XXII. A Victim ofTreachery.4326

CHAPTER XXIII. The Prince aprisoner.451CHAPTER XXIV. The Escape.464CHAPTER XXV. Hendon Hall.474CHAPTER XXVI. Disowned.497CHAPTER XXVII. In Prison.511CHAPTER XXVIII. The sacrifice.545CHAPTER XXIX. To London.557CHAPTER XXX. Tom’s progress.5657

CHAPTER XXXI. The Recognition procession.574CHAPTER XXXII. Coronation Day. 594CHAPTER XXXIII. Edward as King.632TWAIN’S NOTES671GENERAL NOTE6798

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The Great SealI will set down a taleas it was told to meby one who had itof his father, whichlatter had it of hisfather, this last hav1

THE GREAT SEALing in like mannerhad it of his father–and so on, back andstill back, three hundred years and more,the fathers transmitting it to the sonsand so preserving it.It may be history, itmay be only a legend, a tradition. Itmay have happened,it may not have happened: but it couldhave happened. Itmay be that the wiseand the learned be2

THE GREAT SEALlieved it in the olddays; it may be thatonly the unlearnedand the simple lovedit and credited it.3

CHAPTER I. Thebirth of the Princeand the Pauper.on aI certain autumncitydayofinLondon,the secondN THE ANCIENT4

CHAPTER I. THE BIRTH OF THEPRINCE AND THE PAUPER.quarter of the sixteenth century, a boywas born to a poor family of the nameof Canty, who did not want him. Onthe same day another English child wasborn to a rich family of the name of Tudor, who did want him. All Englandwanted him too. England had so longedfor him, and hoped for him, and prayedGod for him, that, now that he was really come, the people went nearly madfor joy. Mere acquaintances hugged andkissed each other and cried. Everybodytook a holiday, and high and low, richand poor, feasted and danced and sang,and got very mellow; and they kept thisup for days and nights together. Byday, London was a sight to see, with gay5

CHAPTER I. THE BIRTH OF THEPRINCE AND THE PAUPER.banners waving from every balcony andhousetop, and splendid pageants marching along. By night, it was again a sightto see, with its great bonfires at everycorner, and its troops of revellers makingmerry around them. There was no talk inall England but of the new baby, EdwardTudor, Prince of Wales, who lay lappedin silks and satins, unconscious of all thisfuss, and not knowing that great lordsand ladies were tending him and watching over him–and not caring, either. Butthere was no talk about the other baby,Tom Canty, lapped in his poor rags, except among the family of paupers whomhe had just come to trouble with his presence.6

CHAPTER II. Tom’searly life.Let us skip a number of years.L old,hundred yearsand was a great town–forONDON WAS FIFTEEN7

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.that day.It had a hundred thousand inhabitants–some think double asmany. The streets were very narrow, andcrooked, and dirty, especially in the partwhere Tom Canty lived, which was notfar from London Bridge. The houseswere of wood, with the second story projecting over the first, and the third sticking its elbows out beyond the second.The higher the houses grew, the broaderthey grew. They were skeletons of strongcriss-cross beams, with solid material between, coated with plaster. The beamswere painted red or blue or black, according to the owner’s taste, and thisgave the houses a very picturesque look.The windows were small, glazed with8

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.little diamond-shaped panes, and theyopened outward, on hinges, like doors.The house which Tom’s father livedin was up a foul little pocket called Offal Court, out of Pudding Lane. It wassmall, decayed, and rickety, but it waspacked full of wretchedly poor families.Canty’s tribe occupied a room on thethird floor. The mother and father had asort of bedstead in the corner; but Tom,his grandmother, and his two sisters, Betand Nan, were not restricted–they hadall the floor to themselves, and mightsleep where they chose. There were theremains of a blanket or two, and somebundles of ancient and dirty straw, butthese could not rightly be called beds,9

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.for they were not organised; they werekicked into a general pile, mornings, andselections made from the mass at night,for service.Bet and Nan were fifteen years old–twins. They were good-hearted girls,unclean, clothed in rags, and profoundlyignorant. Their mother was like them.But the father and the grandmother werea couple of fiends.They got drunkwhenever they could; then they foughteach other or anybody else who came inthe way; they cursed and swore always,drunk or sober; John Canty was a thief,and his mother a beggar. They madebeggars of the children, but failed tomake thieves of them. Among, but not10

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.of, the dreadful rabble that inhabited thehouse, was a good old priest whom theKing had turned out of house and homewith a pension of a few farthings, and heused to get the children aside and teachthem right ways secretly. Father Andrewalso taught Tom a little Latin, and howto read and write; and would have donethe same with the girls, but they wereafraid of the jeers of their friends, whocould not have endured such a queer accomplishment in them.All Offal Court was just such anotherhive as Canty’s house. Drunkenness, riotand brawling were the order, there, every night and nearly all night long. Broken heads were as common as hunger11

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.in that place. Yet little Tom was notunhappy. He had a hard time of it,but did not know it. It was the sort oftime that all the Offal Court boys had,therefore he supposed it was the correctand comfortable thing. When he camehome empty-handed at night, he knewhis father would curse him and thrashhim first, and that when he was done theawful grandmother would do it all overagain and improve on it; and that awayin the night his starving mother wouldslip to him stealthily with any miserable scrap or crust she had been able tosave for him by going hungry herself,notwithstanding she was often caught inthat sort of treason and soundly beaten12

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.for it by her husband.No, Tom’s life went along wellenough, especially in summer. He onlybegged just enough to save himself,for the laws against mendicancy werestringent, and the penalties heavy; so heput in a good deal of his time listeningto good Father Andrew’s charmingold tales and legends about giants andfairies, dwarfs and genii, and enchantedcastles, and gorgeous kings and princes.His head grew to be full of these wonderful things, and many a night as helay in the dark on his scant and offensivestraw, tired, hungry, and smarting froma thrashing, he unleashed his imagination and soon forgot his aches and13

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.pains in delicious picturings to himselfof the charmed life of a petted princein a regal palace. One desire came intime to haunt him day and night: it wasto see a real prince, with his own eyes.He spoke of it once to some of his OffalCourt comrades; but they jeered himand scoffed him so unmercifully that hewas glad to keep his dream to himselfafter that.He often read the priest’s old booksand got him to explain and enlarge uponthem.His dreamings and readingsworked certain changes in him, by-andby. His dream-people were so fine thathe grew to lament his shabby clothingand his dirt, and to wish to be clean and14

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.better clad. He went on playing in themud just the same, and enjoying it, too;but, instead of splashing around in theThames solely for the fun of it, he beganto find an added value in it because ofthe washings and cleansings it afforded.Tom could always find something going on around the Maypole in Cheapside, and at the fairs; and now and thenhe and the rest of London had a chanceto see a military parade when some famous unfortunate was carried prisonerto the Tower, by land or boat. One summer’s day he saw poor Anne Askew andthree men burned at the stake in Smithfield, and heard an ex-Bishop preach asermon to them which did not interest15

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.him. Yes, Tom’s life was varied andpleasant enough, on the whole.By-and-by Tom’s reading and dreaming about princely life wrought such astrong effect upon him that he began toact the prince, unconsciously. His speechand manners became curiously ceremonious and courtly, to the vast admirationand amusement of his intimates. ButTom’s influence among these young people began to grow now, day by day; andin time he came to be looked up to, bythem, with a sort of wondering awe, asa superior being. He seemed to knowso much! and he could do and say suchmarvellous things! and withal, he wasso deep and wise! Tom’s remarks, and16

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.Tom’s performances, were reported bythe boys to their elders; and these, also,presently began to discuss Tom Canty,and to regard him as a most gifted andextraordinary creature. Full-grown people brought their perplexities to Tom forsolution, and were often astonished atthe wit and wisdom of his decisions. Infact he was become a hero to all whoknew him except his own family–these,only, saw nothing in him.Privately, after a while, Tom organiseda royal court! He was the prince; hisspecial comrades were guards, chamberlains, equerries, lords and ladies in waiting, and the royal family.Daily themock prince was received with elaborate17

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.ceremonials borrowed by Tom from hisromantic readings; daily the great affairsof the mimic kingdom were discussed inthe royal council, and daily his mimichighness issued decrees to his imaginaryarmies, navies, and viceroyalties.After which, he would go forth in hisrags and beg a few farthings, eat hispoor crust, take his customary cuffs andabuse, and then stretch himself upon hishandful of foul straw, and resume hisempty grandeurs in his dreams.And still his desire to look just onceupon a real prince, in the flesh, grewupon him, day by day, and week byweek, until at last it absorbed all otherdesires, and became the one passion of18

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.his life.One January day, on his usual begging tour, he tramped despondently upand down the region round about Mincing Lane and Little East Cheap, hourafter hour, bare-footed and cold, looking in at cook-shop windows and longing for the dreadful pork-pies and otherdeadly inventions displayed there–for tohim these were dainties fit for the angels;that is, judging by the smell, they were–for it had never been his good luck toown and eat one. There was a cold drizzle of rain; the atmosphere was murky;it was a melancholy day. At night Tomreached home so wet and tired and hungry that it was not possible for his fa19

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.ther and grandmother to observe his forlorn condition and not be moved–aftertheir fashion; wherefore they gave him abrisk cuffing at once and sent him to bed.For a long time his pain and hunger, andthe swearing and fighting going on inthe building, kept him awake; but at lasthis thoughts drifted away to far, romantic lands, and he fell asleep in the company of jewelled and gilded princelingswho live in vast palaces, and had servants salaaming before them or flying toexecute their orders. And then, as usual,he dreamed that he was a princeling himself.All night long the glories of hisroyal estate shone upon him; he moved20

CHAPTER II. TOM’S EARLY LIFE.among great lords and ladies, in a blazeof light, breathing perfumes, drinking indelicious music, and answering the reverent obeisances of the glittering throngas it parted to make way for him, withhere a smile, and there a nod of hisprincely head.And when he awoke in the morning and looked upon the wretchednessabout him, his dream had had its usualeffect–it had intensified the sordidness ofhis surroundings a thousandfold. Thencame bitterness, and heart-break, andtears.21

CHAPTER III. Tom’smeeting with thePrince.and saunteredT hungry away,hungry,but with his thoughtsOM GOT UP22

CHAPTER III. TOM’S MEETING WITHTHE PRINCE.busy with the shadowy splendours ofhis night’s dreams. He wandered hereand there in the city, hardly noticingwhere he was going, or what was happening around him. People jostled him,and some gave him rough speech; butit was all lost on the musing boy. Byand-by he found himself at Temple Bar,the farthest from home he had ever travelled in that direction. He stopped andconsidered a moment, then fell into hisimaginings again, and passed on outside the walls of London. The Strandhad ceased to be a country-road then,and regarded itself as a street, but by astrained construction; for, though therewas a tolerably compact row of houses23

CHAPTER III. TOM’S MEETING WITHTHE PRINCE.on one side of it, there were only somescattered great buildings on the other,these being palaces of rich nobles, withample and beautiful grounds stretchingto the river–grounds that a

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