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Hop-Frog

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Hop-Frog
deformed dwarf ; court fool. [Am. Lit.: “Hop-Frog” in Portable Poe, 317–329]
See : Clowns

Hop-Frog
crippled, deformed court fool. [Am. Lit.: “Hop-Frog” in Portable Poe, 317–329]
See : Dwarfism

Hop-Frog
immolates king and court after repeated insults. [Am. Lit.: “Hop-Frog” in Portable Poe, 317–329]


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But, as I have already observed, your jesters, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, are fat, round, and unwieldy -- so that it was no small source of self-gratulation with our king that, in Hop-Frog (this was the fool's name), he possessed a triplicate treasure in one person.
 
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