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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 174, 23 July 1881, Page 1

■™' ' " ' . *=*-^^= ii I LJ.UffllW He wbb about 4 years old, but he was a hopeful youtb. " Papa have you done anything down town that you think I ought to whip you for if I were as big as you are ?" Last year, after one of the hunts near Hubertusstock, and whil on his way to a b rd-shooting in the Schorfhaide, the Emperor William felt slightly indisposed by an attack of sore throat, arid proposed to return on ; foot to the. castle. The King of Saxony and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwieriii were with him. When, after an hour's march the Emperor began to feel somewhat tired, his companions hailed a peasant on his team driving in the same direction, and, at their request, the party were speedily accommodated with seats on the wagon. After a while the peasants' curiosity would no longer be kept down, and he naively asked, " I suppose it is all right, but would you please tell me who you are ? " "I am the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg." " Ahem ! " said the peasant, incredulonsly, " and who are you ? " "I am the King of Saxony." " Oho ! " ejaculated the peasant; "with a knowing smile; "and you Mr.— ?" lam the Emperor." "There, that will do," grinned the peasant ; " and I daresay you'd like to know who I am. lam the Shoh of Persia; and when it comes to joking I can take off my part as well as the next man." The three real sovereigns fairly roared with Jaughfer ; but the good-natured peasant drew a pretty long face when soon after he deposited, his. passengers at thexastle, and found out that he had been the " only jol^f" qf the jfeHy»