“You have spoken well, for true, my friends, of the great kings you have visited; but I will tell you of a king greater than all. His country is not very large; but he has plenty, plenty people to pay his tax.” One day a stranger comes, and asks the king how many people he has under him. The king rejoins that it is too late in the day to say, but that he will give an answer the next day. The next day the king takes watch of every person who eats; and at the end of the day he says to the stranger, ‘All you saw put something in my hand to-day are my subjects. So they do every day.”