“What is this outlandish cap,” said one of his tavern friends to the chief butler, “that the king has taken to wearing?”

“What is it? Why, it is a cap, to be sure,” replied he, testily. “Other men wear caps, I believe. Cannot the king wear one, but all the idle tongues in the city must begin wagging?”

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📚 Source: Evergreen Stories (1920?) by W. M. L. Hutchinson (1868-1936).