Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-29
WAS ScHooLBOY PLAYMATE
 OF GERMAN EMPEROR.
PouItney BigeIow Writes of Those
 Days in His Latest Book.

New York papers have been giving long reviews of Prussian Memories the latest book of Poultry Bigelow, N. F. A. '73, speaker at the Norwich Free Academy Alumni reunion in June last.
 "Prussian Memories" may be read for it's point of view, which in the present crisis is anti-German because anti-militanist, or for its serious criti- cisms of men, events and conditions, or, with warmer interest than in all else, for it's purely personal recollec- tions of experiences in the Fatherland, in the school days and in later years, said the New York Sunday World. He was eight years old when he was sent to a hig boarding school. at Bonn, and his immediate affiliations as well as boys, but with Americans and Eng fish. He writes:
 eve did delight in faisting our national flag at the highest point of some tree and then fighting to main- tain it there until our clothes were in tatters or smeared with mud and blood. Whether England triumphed oftener than the United States I do not recall, but we did our little best to settle the Alabama claims out of court. These scrimmages were whole some things, for they did most drasti- cal1y determine the relative position of every boy in that school. Played with Kaiser and His Brother. Later. in the family of Prof. Schill- bach. at Potsdam, came phases of the Prussian academic life. also our au- thors first glimpses of imperialism in the bud:
 "On day the quiet little street of Schillbach reverberated with the clat- ter of a royal equipage. It stopped before our door and no less a person than the great Doctor Hinzpeter tutor of the royal princess. alighted for a formal call. The upshot was that I was carried away to play with the prospective Prussian monarch and his brother Henry. This did not im- press me as much as it did Schillbach, because I had in Paris made personal acquaintance of the Prince Imperial oily and his face pale and freckled. His clothes had so much of lace, vel vet and silk that I longed to pull them off his back.
 And so whilst I was being driven out to the Potsdam palace behind the splendid Mohenzollern horses and the grand liveries on the box I fretted more ever my interrupted studies than over details of court ceremonial. But what was my delight when the elder of the two young princes came forward with outstretched hand and English and suggesting that we play | Indians or indeed anything that fur nished scope for rough and tumble Gave Bow and Arrow to William II. Even in those early days of Will | jam
 'No game interested him much that did not suggest war. Myself being | fresh from America, I was credited, | if not with Indian blood at least
 with intimate knowledge of redskin
 tactics; consequently we talked much of Fenimore Cooper, the -Deerslayer and Chingachgook at our first meet | ing, and at our second I gave Prince l William an Indian bow and gaudy | tassel at each end and a bunch of arrows with blunt reads. These war 1 like reminders of Americas first fam
 lilies had been a present from my | mother.
 l ''The moment William II had these | precious implements in his posses | sion he radiantly suggested a war game on the Iroquois plan and our victims were not far to seek We
 elected ourselves exclusive members 1 of the Ancient and Honorable Order | of Rcd Men and declared all others
 to be palefaces. and as the outcasts | were mainly of the much drilled and very correct Prussian aristocracy we | took youthful pleasure in chasing | them through the bushes of the great park, seizing them by the hair, lash ing them to trees, and then meta
 phorically shooting them full of ar- rows.