Riddles.
Another set, still more numerous and popular in aspect, if not in
fact, fills a large seat on the third leg. These last, from their being
supposed to be supereminently popular and disinterested, are familiarly
known as the Legion. They are also pleasantly nicknamed the Bobees,
an appellation that took its rise in the circumstance that most of the
members of their body have submitted to the second dock, and, indeed,
have nearly obliterated every sign of a CAUDA. I had, most luckily, been
chosen to sit in the House of Bobees, a station for which I felt myself
well qualified, in this great essential at least; for all the anointing
and forcing resorted to by Noah and myself, during our voyage out, and
our residence in Leaphigh, had not produced so much as a visible sprout
in either.

The Great Sachem, the Riddles, and the Legion, had conjoint duties to
perform, in certain respects, and separate duties in others. All three,
as they owed their allegorical elevation to, so were they dependent on,
the people at the foot of the great social stick, for approbation and
reward--that is to say for all rewards other than those which they have
it in their power to bestow on themselves. There was another authority,
or agent of the public, that is equally perched on the social beam,
though not quite so dependent as the three just named, upon the main
prop of the people--being also propped by a mechanical disposition of
the tripod itself. These are termed the Supreme Arbitrators, and their
duties are to revise the acts of the other three agents of the people,
and to decide whether they are or are not in conformity with the
recognized principles of the Sacred Allegory.

I was greatly delighted with my own progress in the study of the Leaplow
institutions. In the first place, I soon discovered that the principal
thing was to reverse the political knowledge I had acquired in Leaphigh,
as one would turn a tub upside-down, when he wished to draw from its
stores at a fresh end, and then I was pretty sure of being within at
least the spirit of the Leaplow law. Everything seemed simple, for all
was dependent on the common prop, at the base of the great social beam.

Having got a thorough insight myself into the governing principles of
the system under which I had been chosen to serve, I went to look up
my colleague, Captain Poke, in order to ascertain how he understood the
great Leaplow Allegory.

I found the mind of the sealer, acc