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ALMOST A KING

I had not shaved since I left San Francisco—ten days. As soon as I got ashore, I hunted for a striped pole, and shortly found one. I always had a yearning to be a king. This may never be, I suppose. But at any rate it will always be a satisfaction to me to know that if I am not a king, I am the next thing to it—I have been shaved by the King's barber.