A Needful War
    
    
      THE people of Madagonia had an antipathy to the people of Novakatka 
    and set upon some sailors of a Novakatkan vessel, killing two and 
    wounding twelve.  The King of Madagonia having refused either to 
    apologise or pay, the King of Novakatka made war upon him, saying 
    that it was necessary to show that Novakatkans must not be 
    slaughtered.  In the battles which ensued the people of Madagonia 
    slaughtered two thousand Novakatkans and wounded twelve thousand.  
    But the Madagonians were unsuccessful, which so chagrined them that 
    never thereafter in all their land was a Novakatkan secure in 
    property or life.
    


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