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63.

Then the Emperor's ex-nephew who was confined in jail, had a terrible time sleeping one night. He tossed and turned all night long. When Klee came to him in the morning and observed him, behold, he was down hearted. And he asked the former Emperor's nephew who was with him in confinement in jail, ''Why is your face so sad today?'' Then the former nephew said to him, ''Are you blind? Just look at my hair; I've got Bed-head and there is no one to interpret it!'' He said this because in the Kingdom of Feb, Bed-head interpretations are used to foretell the future. Then Klee said to him, ''Do not interpretations belong to Quater? Let me study your Bed-head, please.''

64.

Then Klee said to him, ''This is the interpretation of your Bed-head: this afternoon the Emperor will restore you to the position of Emperor's nephew and have you released from jail. Now, please do me a kindness by mentioning me to the Emperor, and get me out of this jail. For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of Fwah Ah, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into jail.''

65.

That afternoon the Emperor declared that his nephew who was in jail should be restored to the position of Emperor's nephew. When the Emperor was asked what should be done with the guy to whom he, the Emperor, had given the ''nephew status'', the Emperor said to throw him in jail instead. The Emperor's nephew did not remember Klee, in fact he forgot him. But Quater did not forget Klee.

66.

Now it happened at the end of two full years, that the Emperor woke up one morning with Bed-head, and his spirit was troubled, so he sent and called for all the interpreters. And the Emperor had them study his Bed-head, but there was no one who could interpret it to the Emperor.

67.

Then the Emperor's nephew spoke up, saying, ''I would make mention today of my own offenses. The Emperor was furious with me, and he put me in confinement in the jail. And I woke up one morning with Bed-head. Now a Fwah Ah youth was with me there, a servant of the jailer, and he studied my Bed-head, and he did interpret it for me. And it came about that just as he interpreted for me, so it happened; I was restored to my status as Emperor's nephew.''

68.

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,

69.

''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.''

70.

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.''

71.

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.''

72.

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.