Chapter 29-31 Education or Intelligence

It is ironic that the King aments about the town's foolishness when the King's own foolishness has provided the reader with much comic relief through the story.

"Blamed if I know – that is, what's become of the raft. That old fool had made a trade and got forty dollars, and when we found him in the doggery the loafers had matched half-dollars with him and got every cent but what he'd spent for whisky; and when I got him home late last night and found the raft gone, we said, 'That little rascal has stole our raft and shook us, and run off down the river.'" (ch 31)