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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 



