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Then the Emperor sent and called for Klee, and they hurriedly brought him out of the jail. And when he had shaved himself from head to toe (that is how one was presented to the Emperor in those days) and changed his clothes, he came to the Emperor. And the Emperor said to Klee,
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''I presume that you can see I have Bed-head, and no one here can interpret it; but I have heard it said about you, that when you study a Bed-head you can interpret it.'' Klee then answered the Emperor, saying, ''It is not in me; interpretations of Bed-head belong to Quater.'' The Emperor said to Klee, ''Behold, study my Bed-head.''
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Now Klee said to the Emperor, ''A terrible drought is coming. It is going to cause sky-rocketing inflation and a shortage of FwaGerkins and FepGerkins, throw the land into a panic, raise prices and drop interest rates. But not before there is a huge surplus of FepGerkins. Now let the Emperor look for a man discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Fep. Let the Emperor take action to appoint overseers in charge of the land, and let him exact a fifth of the FepGerkins of the land of Fep in the time of surplus. Then let them gather all the FepGerkins of this surplus and store them up, and let them guard it. And let the surplus become as a reserve for the land during the drought which will occur in the lands of Fwah Ah and Fep, so that the land may not perish during sky-rocketing inflation.''
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The Emperor said, ''Wow! All that was in my Bed-head?'' Then he said to his servants, ''Can you believe a man like this guy Klee?'' So the Emperor said to Klee, ''Since you've got all the answers, you shall be over my house, and according to your command all my people shall do homage; only in the throne I will be greater than you. See, I have set you over all the land of Fep.''
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Then the Emperor took off his shorts (he had undershorts on underneath, for cryin' out loud!), and put them on Klee. And he had him ride on his second vehicle; and the servants proclaimed before him, ''Bow the knee!'' And he set him over all the land of Fep. Moreover, the Emperor said to Klee, ''Though I am the Emperor, yet without your permission no one shall raise his hand or foot or left eyebrow in all the land of Fep.'' And he gave him Gail, the daughter of a guy he beat in a game of wagon-hurling the previous day.
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Thus, Klee became prime minister of the neighboring Kingdom of Fep.
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After the period of surplus in Fep, Feh's land dried-up and the FwaHerds wandered away, and a shortage of FwaGerkins threw the land of Fwah Ah into a panic, raising prices and dropping interest rates.
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The Feh boys: Klough, Kluff, Klau, Klimt, Kleft, Klak, Klink, and five sons all of whom Feh named Kloppenhomwinwitz because Feh could not think of another name until the birth of his last son, Klee, were forced to trek out to Fep and trade their prized ChoppenMettle statues for FepGerkins, dreading the odious FepAftertaste.
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The Fwah Ah hate FepGerkins, to them they are ''dirty.'' The Fwah are so conditioned to despise FepGerkins that just thinking of the FepAftertaste causes a physical reaction.
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Simply seeing a FepGerkin has been known to cause a Fwah Ah to go pale and become woozy. The odor of FepGerkins sets off the gag reflex.
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