was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon level head for a nigger. I read considerable to Jim about kings and dukes and earls and such, and how gaudy they dressed, and how much style they put on, and called each other your majesty, and your grace, and your lordship, and so on, 'stead of mister; and Jim's eyes bugged out, and he was interested.  He says: “I didn' know dey was so many un um.  I hain't hearn 'bout none un um, skasely, but ole King Sollermun, onless you counts dem kings dat's in a pack er k'yards.  How much do a king git?” “Get?”  I says; “why, they get a thousand dollars a month if they want it; they can have just as much as they want; everything belongs to them.” “_Ain'_ dat gay?  En what dey got to do, Huck?” “_They_ don't do nothing!  Why, how you talk! They just set around.” “No; is dat so?” “Of course it is.  They just set around--except, maybe, when there's a war; then they go to the war.  But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking--just hawking and sp--Sh!--d' you hear a noise?” We skipped out and looked; but it warn't nothing but the flutter of a steamboat's wheel away down, coming around the point; so we come back. “Yes,” says I, “and other times, when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off. But mostly they hang round the harem.” “Roun' de which?” “Harem.” “What's de harem?” “The place where he keeps his wives.  Don't you know about the harem? Solomon had one; he had about a million wives.” “Why, yes, dat's so; I--I'd done forgot it.  A harem's a bo'd'n-house, I reck'n.  Mos' likely dey has rackety times in de nussery.  En I reck'n de wives quarrels considable; en dat 'crease de racket.  Yit dey say Sollermun de wises' man dat ever live'.  I doan' take no stock in dat. Bekase why: would a wise man want to live in de mids' er sich a blim-blammin' all de time?  No--'deed he wouldn't.  A wise man 'ud take en buil' a biler-factry; en den he co