没有骨头的国王

Belinda

SOME Apes who had deposed their king fell at once into dissension

and anarchy. In this strait they sent a Deputation to a

neighbouring tribe to consult the Oldest and Wisest Ape in All the World.

"My children," said the Oldest and Wisest Ape in All the World,

when he had heard the Deputation, "you did right in ridding

yourselves of tyranny, but your tribe is not sufficiently advanced

to dispense with the forms of monarchy. Entice the tyrant back

with fair promises, kill him and enthrone. The skeleton of even

the most lawless despot makes a good constitutional sovereign."

At this the Deputation was greatly abashed. "It is impossible,"

they said, moving away; "our king has no skeleton; he was stuffed."