River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-14

vanted to pay their respects, and the
emperor, who wore an ordinary dark
suit, with no military frills, took one
Of the young princes he had been play
ing with, across his knee and gave
him 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 football player, and the other
princes pulled him of, and the en-
peror 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 about the FRANKS 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 the ruler of Germany turned to
me and said, "And so this is the cham
pion little devil of America" and
patted 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
mad a bully time. The princes had all
read "Peck's Bad Boy" and / 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 fat1er, the en-
peror, which they had copied from the
BAD Boy" AMI it made me blush
when they told of initiating their
father into the Masons, the way my
chum and / initiated dad into the
Masons with the aid of goat.
I asked the boys how their dad took
it, and told them from what we in
America heard about the emperor of
Germany, we would think he would kill
anybody that played trick on him,
but they said he would stand anything
from the children, and enjoy 1t, but
if grown men attempted to monkey
with him, the fur would fly. The
crown prince came in and was intro
duced to me, and he seemed proud to
see me, cause his uncle, Prince Hen
ry, had told him about being in Mil
waukee, and how all the women in
that town were the handsomest he had
ever seen in his "trip around the world.
and he asked me il it was so. | re-
ferred him to dad, and dad told him
the women were the greatest in the
world, and then dad made his usual
break. He said: Look ahere, Mister
Prince, you have got to be married
some day, and raise family to hand
the German empire down to, and my
advice to you is not to let them saw
off on to you no duchess or princess
as homely as hedge fence, with no
ginger in her blood, but you skip out
to America, and come to Milwaukee.
and I will introduce you to girls that
are so handsome they will make you
toe the mark, and if you marry one
of them she will raise a family of
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in the blood, and you won't have to
go off and be gay away from home,
cause an American wife will take you
by the ear if you show any signs of
wandering from your own fire side,
like lots of your relatives have done"
Gee, but that rpade the emperor hot,
and he said dad needn't instil any of
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nobility, as he could run things all
right without any help, and dad got
ready to go, cause the atmosphere was
getting sort of chilly, but the emperor
soon got over his huff, and told dad
not to hurry, and then he turned to me
and said, Nov, little American bad
boy, what kind of q trick are you 60
ing to play on me, cause from what
have read of you I know you will
never go out of this house without
giving me a benefit, and all my boys
expect it, and will enjoy it, the same
as | will: now let er CO."
felt that it was up to me to dc
something to maintain the reputation
I had made, SO I said, Your majesty,
will now proceed to make it inter
esting for you, if you and the boys
will kindly be seated in a circle
around me-" They got into q circle,
all laughing, and took out Of my
pistol pocket half pint flask of glass,
covered with leather, and with a stop
per that opened by touching spring.
and / walked around in front of each
one of the royal family, mumbling,
ne-mene-mony-my," and opening the
flask in front of each one, and pretty
soon they all began to get nervous.