THE BOOK OF
FROGS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF GLORY
Frog masses irritated by party tax
Chapter 11
By an unfortunate coincidence, the English beheaded their king, gCharles I, at just about the same time that the Frog masses were starting to notice a few things about the divine right of Louis’s.
2hFor example, they had noticed that very few of the Frog masses ever got invited to Louis’s parties.
3They noticed that the party tax, which was paid by the Frog masses, amounted to almost i100 percent of their income.
4jThey noticed that Frog high fashions were almost never worn by peasants.
5kThey noticed that anyone who tried to attend one of Louis’s parties without an invitation usually wound up in the Bastille or dead.
6lThey noticed that whenever there was some really hard work to be done, like a war with the English or an exploring expedition to the New World, it was the Frog masses who had to do it,
7mIn cheap low-fashion clothes, like as not.
8And when the Englishman named nCromwell cut off the king’s head, they noticed that he actually got away with it.
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