3a. In your own words, what does the first sentence of the text say about the king? 3b. In your own words, what does the second sentence of the story of the say
about the king?
3c. In your own words, what does the third highlighted portion of the text say
about the king?
3d. What does the fourth highlighted section of the text say about the king?
3e. Lastly, what does the fifth highlighted section of the text say about the king?
In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbane king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and
sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled
as became the half of him which was barbaric. He was a man of exuberant fancy, and withal, of an
authority so irresistible that, at his will he turned his varied fancies into facts. Ile was greatly given to
self-communing, and when he and himself agreed upon anything the thing was done. When every
member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his mature was
bland and genial, but, whenever there was a little hitch, and some of his orbs got out of their orbits, he
was blander and more genial still, for nothing pleased him so much as to make the crooked straight
and crush down uneven places.