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Edgar Allan Poe's tale of Hop-Frog, the practical-joke-loving king's crippled dwarf servant, draws after Poe's affinity for stories of vengeance and the horrific. System.drawing.bitmap king and his seven ministers treat Hop-Frog and his female friend Trippetta, who is also a dwarf but beautifully proportioned, with disrespect whenever the king loses his temper. As long as the king and the likewise raucous seven are about their merriment and Hop-Frog joins them in their 'play', all is well. But beneath this lightness, the King has a dark and violent dynamics. When the king makes his crippled joker/fool to drink wine beverages, which he despises, Tripetta tries to intervene on Hop-Frog's behalf. The king knocks her to the ground and dumps wine beverages in her face. This angers Hop-Frog, and his plans to wreck vengeance after the king and his courtroom are quickly made a decision.