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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.