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[Left out of "A Tramp Abroad" because its authenticity seemed doubtful, and could not at that time be proved. -- M. T.]
More than a thousand years ago this small district was a kingdom -- a little bit of a kingdom, a sort of dainty little toy kingdom, as one might say. It was far removed from the jealousies, strifes, and turmoils of that old warlike day, and so its life was a simple life, its people a gentle and guileless race; it lay always in a deep dream of peace, a soft Sabbath tranquillity; there was no malice, there was no envy, there was no ambition, consequently there were no heart-burnings, there was no unhappiness in the land.