human
Are they going to eat him?
gpt
Ha! ha! laughed the Dutchman.
human
No! this is a fashion of the Czar's, which the Admiral thinks it good policy to follow. See, it tickles the hebete Russians. They are quite merry on it.
gpt
To be sure, said I;
human
Ay, and if it were not for such jokes now and then, the Czar would be odious beyond measure; but dwarf pies and mock processions make his subjects almost forgive him for having shortened their clothes and clipped their beards.
gpt
The Czar is very fond of those mock processions?
human
Fond! and the little man sank his voice into a whisper;