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This is our read-aloud to each other book for 2024.

Those in modern American politics who support minimum wage rises and who are also big and protectionism might do well to re-read this chapter and Mark Twain‘s satire of I’m thinking dogmatism in medieval England.

In the section when the Yank and King are being feasted there is a whole narrative in which a common guildsman describes his rise to wealth. The Yank then reveals his far greater wealth. In the section the yank is acting exactly like another of Twain‘s creations Tom Sawyer. He delights not only in taking down another’s pride but swimming in it himself. It’s less admirable in a man than in a boy.