A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 8.

A CONNECTICUT YANKEE, By Twain, Part 8.
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A CONNECTICUT YANKEE, By Twain, Part 8.
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT
by
MARK TWAIN
(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 8.
CONTENTS:
CHAPTER XXXVI. CHAPTER XXXVII. CHAPTER XXXVIII. CHAPTER XXXIX. CHAPTER XL.
AN ENCOUNTER IN THE DARK AN AWFUL PREDICAMENT SIR LAUNCELOT AND KNIGHTS TO THE RESCUE THE YANKEE'S FIGHT WITH THE KNIGHTS THREE YEARS LATER
CHAPTER XXXVI
AN ENCOUNTER IN THE DARK London—to a slave—was a sufficiently interesting place. It was merely a great big village; and mainly mud and thatch. The streets were muddy, crooked, unpaved. The populace was an ever flocking and drifting swarm of rags, and splendors, of nodding plumes and shining armor. The king had a palace there; he saw the outside of it. It made him sigh; yes, and swear a little, in a poor juvenile sixth century ...