The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-30
PECK'SBADBOY ABROAD
The Bad Boy Finds Germany Very Much Like Mil waukee--He Plays Mumblety Peg with the German Princes--He Entertains the Royal Family
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occasionally, when some celebration or German days takes place.
 Well, when dad saw the German emperor drive down the great street and got a look at his face. he said, "Hennery, have got to see that young man and advise him to go and consult @ doctor" and so we made arrange ments to go to the palace and see the emperor and his son, the crown prince, who will before long take the empire on his shoulders If William is as sick as he looks You don't have to hire any masquerade clothes to call on the emperor of Germany. like you do when you visit royalty in Turkey and Egypt, for good frock coat and silk hat will take you anywhere in the day time, and swallow-tail is legal ten der at night, so dad put on his frock coat and silk hat, just as he would 10 go and attend an afternoon wedding at home, and we were ushered into regular parlor where the emperor was having fun with his children, and the empress was doing some needle work.
 Dad supposed we would have to talk to the emperor and the prince through an interpreter, and we stood there waiting for some one to break the ice, when some one told the emperor that dH btllblChieh anu 'A'S "NJ wanted to pay their respects. and the emperor, who wore an ordinary dark suit, with no military frllls, took one of the young princes he had been play ing with, across his knee and gave him a couple of easy spanks, in fun. and the whole family was laughing, and the spanked boy tackled the em- peror around the legs, below the knee, like a football player, and the other
 Il NEF t.1 kIA 1WN.ar or came up to dad, smiling as though he was having the time of his life, and spoke to dad in the purest English, and said he was glad to see the Bad Boy" man, because he had read all all about the pranks of the bad boy and bid dad welcome to Germany, and he didn't look sick at all.
 Dad was taken all of aheap, and didn't know what to make of the Ger man emperor talking English, but when tEe ruler of Germany turned to me and said, And so this is the cham pion little devil of America" and pat ted me on the head, dad felt that he had struck a friend of the family and he sat down with the emperor and talked for half an hour, while the young princes gathered around me, and we sat down on the floor and the boys got out their knives and we played mumblety peg on the carpet, just as though we were at home. and all the boys talked English. and we had a bully time. The princes had all read "Peck's Bad Boy" and I think the emperor and empress have encour- aged them in their wickedness, for the boys told me of several tricks they had played on their father, the em- peror. which they had copied from the Bad Boy" and 1t made me blush when they told of initiating their father into the Masons, the way my chum and I initiated dad into the Masons with the aid of a goat.
 I asked the boys how their dad took fl, and told them from what we in America had heard about the emperor of Germany, we would think he would