5th Prince: 

  Conjunctions join the nouns together
  As men and children, wind or weather.

Guardian:  It will be very useful to you to have that so well grafted in your mind....  What noise is that outside?

Servant:  It is some strolling people.

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.

Jester:  One ...if it is long enough!  Which is it easier to spell, ducks or geese?

3rd Prince:  Ducks I suppose because it’s shorter.

Jester:  Not at all but geese.  Do you know why?  Because it is spelled with ees.  Tell me now, can you spell pup backwards?

4th Prince:  P-u-p....

Jester:  Not at all.

4th Prince:  But it is.

Jester:  No, that is pup straight forwards....  Can you run back and forwards at the same time?

4th Prince:  Answer it yourself so.

Jester:  You would be as wise as myself then.  But I’ll show you some tricks.  Look at these three straws on my hand.  Will I be able to blow two of them away, and the other to stay in its place?

5th Prince:  They would all blow away.

Jester:  Look now.  Puff! (He has put his finger on the middle one.) Now is it possible?

5th Prince:  It is easy when you know the way.

Jester:  That is so with all knowledge.  Can you wag one ear and keep the other quiet?

1st Prince:  Nobody can do that.

Jester:  (Wagging one ear with his finger.) There, now you see I have done it!  There’s more learning than is taught in books.  Wait now and I’ll give you out a song I’ll engage you never heard. (Sings or repeats.)