1st Prince: Oh, Guardian, let them come in.
We will do our work all the better if we have some
amusement now.
Guardian: Maybe so. I am well pleased when
amusements come to our door, that you can see
without going outside the walls.
(A Jester enters in very ragged green clothes
and broken shoes.)
But this is a very ragged looking man. Do you
know anything about him, Gillie?
Servant: I seen him one time before.... At
the time of the earthquake out in Foreign. A mad
jester he was. A tramp class of a man. (To Jester.)
Where is it you stop?
Jester: Where do I stop? Where would I be
but everywhere, like the bad weather. I stop in
no place, but going through the whole roads of
the world.
Guardian: What brought you in here?
Jester: Hearing questions going on, and answers.
I am well able to give help in that. It's
not long since I was giving instruction to the sons
of the King of Babylon. Here now is a question.
How many ladders would it take to reach to the
moon?
1st Prince: It should be a great many.
2nd Prince: I give it up.