The Kingdom of Purple Cloud had a sick king, and the king had been sick for three years, and no physician in the land could name the illness, and the pilgrims arrived to find a royal notice posted for any healer in the world who could cure the throne.
took the notice down — partly mischief, partly the genuine curiosity of a creature who has now spent a book learning that not every problem is a fight — and presented himself, a monkey, as an itinerant master-physician, to the astonishment and then the desperation of a court that had run out of other options.
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