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watched and guarded, and he kept two 

 men busy all the time. Although his at 

 tention was distracted from the trap as 

 much as possible, he found time to gnaw 

 and rip a ten-inch log almost in two, and 

 sometimes he made the bark and splinters 

 fly in a way that was calculated to make 

 a nervous man loathe the job of standing 

 guard over him. For six days the Mon 

 arch was so busy trying to break jail that 

 he had no time to fool away in eating. Sol 

 itary confinement developed in him a most 

 malicious temper and he flew into a rage 

 whenever food was thrown to him. 



But his applications for a writ of habeas 

 corpus were persistently denied by a man 

 with a club, and the Monarch at last 

 cooled down a little and condescended to 

 take a light lunch of raw venison. He was 

 given two days for reflection and medita 

 tion, and when he seemed to be in a more 

 reasonable mood, the work of preparing 

 him for a visit to the city was begun. 



A running noose was made in a stout 



