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Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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taryband. The wild boar, with tusks cut short, wasallowed to escape from a log pen, and given tenminutes the start. I saw a hundred hounds, thatsat in a circle on their haunches. Suddenly, a blastfrom the horn, and away flew the hundred hounds,followed by a hundred eager hunters in hot haste.Within an hour the wild boar was brought back,maimed and dead. I am glad that most Americans are too refined toengage in the sport of torturing innocent animals,and that we are busy building up a grand and freeNation. Again we return to Berlin. When the EmperorWilliam was twelve years old, though in delicatehealth, his mother one day said to him, * William,you see me weep ; when I am no more, be not satis-fied with tears, but deserve the fame of a hero, andunder God you may deliver your suffering country.William had spent his life in uniform. He was aman of twenty-five years when General Grant wasborn. On the seventieth anniversary of his militarycareer, the officers of his army presented to him a
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FOUR GENERATIONS IN THE GERMAN IMPERIAL FAMILY. TRAVELS. 171 golden sword, and engraved thereon were the namesof his many battles. We visited the late Emperor Williams study.He daily consulted a calendar of Bible texts andproverbs. His first visitor was the Doctor, whoprescribed for the day. On his desk was a lapis-lazuli paper weight, and often his favorite blue cornflowers, which were once made into a little crownfor him by his mother when a broken carriage de-layed the Royal family escaping from Napoleonsvictorious arms. His work-table faces the Linden.In sight are army papers and books, one the Bible,photographs of his family, statuettes and busts ofGerman heroes. On the wall is a large painting ofthe Empress, the Dear Augusta of his pioustelegrams sent from France. Though on her kneesAugusta besought her husband not to heed Bis-marcks suggestions for a reunited Germany, yet asthe war began she penned patriotic appeals to thewomen of Germany to send succor to the Rhine.On the wall

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