THE KING--Explain our constitution to him. Tell him that all bills for revenue originate in the lower House, and point out that on account of a vicious bipartisan alliance of all the traitors in the kingdom I'm kept so short of money that I can't possibly afford any new clothes. THE IMPERIAL FOOTMAN--He didn't say anything about money, your majesty. THE KING--Well, I won't give him a bealo down and a bealo a week either. Tell him to wait until I've got a clear title to the pianola. THE IMPERIAL FOOTMAN--What he said was that he had a valuable gift for the most enlightened ruler in the world. THE KING--Well, why didn't you say so in the first place? What was the use of keeping me waiting? Send him up right away. (_Exit the Footman._) THE KING (_speaking in the general direction of the Leading Republican_)--Fortunately, my fame rises above petty slanders. The common people, they know me and they love me. THE LEADING REPUBLICAN--They love your simplicity, your majesty, your lack of ostentation, your tractability. (_Enter the Tailor._) THE TAILOR--I have come a far journey to see your majesty. THE KING--I am honored. THE TAILOR--For a long time I have been journeying to find an enlightened sovereign, a sovereign who was fitted in all respects for his high office. I stopped in Ruritania; he was not there. He was not in Pannonia or in Gamar. You are my hope, majesty. THE KING--I trust this may indeed be the end of your journey. I think I may say that Marma is a model kingdom. As you doubtless know, the capital city is Grenoble, with a population of 145,000, according to the last census. We have modern waterworks, a library with more than 10,000 volumes, an art museum, a tannery, three cathedrals, two opera houses and numerous moving picture theaters. The principal industries, as you may recall, are salt fish, woolen blankets, pottery, dried raisins and shrapnel. THE TAILOR--Your majesty will pardon me if I say that I don't give a fig for your raisins or your dried fish or the cathedrals, or even the library with the 10,000 volumes. What I am seeking is a man with eyes to see. THE KING--No one has better eyes than myself, I'm sure. I have shot as many as a hundred pheasants in an afternoon, and, if you will pardon the allegorical allusion, I can see loyalty and virtue though they reside in the breast of the most distant and humble subject in my kingdom.