"The people most killed themselves laughing; and when the king got done capering and capered off behind the scenes, they roared and clapped and stormed and till he come back and done it over again, and after that they made him do it another time. "
The King sets up a show for the men to watch and only the men, in order to single out just men so that they would be more liekly to come. This strategy attracts all the men and sells out immediatly. In the show the king comes out humiliating himself over and over again in order to gain a some money. He does acts such as crawl out on all fours, nude. Here Twain uses the king to send out a message of how desperate people are to make money, that they would actually go out and humiliate themselves. A modern connection to this is whores a
nd prostitutes who go out and put themsleves on the street to make money off prostitution. Much like what the king does, prostitutes humiliate themselves by selling themselves and letting others exploit them for a few dollars. In the illustration, a prostitute sells herself, much like what Twain says when he writes about the king. 
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