09-10-08 Chapter 19 - Knight-Errantry as a Trade SANDY and I were on the road again, next morning, bright and early. It was so good to open up one's lungs and take in whole luscious barrels-ful of the blessed God's untainted, dew-fashioned, woodlandscented a...

09-10-08 Chapter 18 - In The Queen's Dungeons WELL, I arranged all that; and I had the man sent to his home. I had a great desire to rack the executioner; not because he was a good, painstaking and paingiving official, -- for surely it was not to his discred...

09-10-08 Chapter 17 - A Royal Banquet MADAME, seeing me pacific and unresentful, no doubt judged that I was deceived by her excuse; for her fright dissolved away, and she was soon so importunate to have me give an exhibition and kill somebody, that the thing...

09-10-08 Chapter 16 - Morgan Le Fay IF knights errant were to be believed, not all castles were desirable places to seek hospitality in. As a matter of fact, knights errant were NOT persons to be believed -- that is, measured by modern standards of veracity;...

09-10-08 Chapter 15 - Sandy's Tale AND so I'm proprietor of some knights, said I, as we rode off. Who would ever have supposed that I should live to list up assets of that sort. I shan't know what to do with them; unless I raffle them off. How many of them a...

09-10-08 Chapter 14 - Defend Thee, Lord I PAID three pennies for my breakfast, and a most extravagant price it was, too, seeing that one could have breakfasted a dozen persons for that money; but I was feeling good by this time, and I had always been a kind...

09-10-08 Chapter 13 - Freemen YES, it is strange how little a while at a time a person can be contented. Only a little while back, when I was riding and suffering, what a heaven this peace, this rest, this sweet serenity in this secluded shady nook by this p...

09-10-08 Chapter 12 - Slow Torture STRAIGHT off, we were in the country. It was most lovely and pleasant in those sylvan solitudes in the early cool morning in the first freshness of autumn. From hilltops we saw fair green valleys lying spread out below, wit...

09-10-08 Chapter 11 - The Yankee in Search of Adventures THERE never was such a country for wandering liars; and they were of both sexes. Hardly a month went by without one of these tramps arriving; and generally loaded with a tale about some princess or oth...

09-10-08 Chapter 10 - Beginnings of Civilization THE Round Table soon heard of the challenge, and of course it was a good deal discussed, for such things interested the boys. The king thought I ought now to set forth in quest of adventures, so that I might g...