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The Grand Duchess of Baden passed through today—
streets and Bahnhof decked with bunting, and cannon
fired. She is the Emperor's daughter and was in the car-
riage with him last week when that communist fired
on him.

A coin, sleeve-button or a collar-button dropped in a
bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handker-
chief in bed can't be found.

A dog is "der Hund"; a woman is "die Frau"; a horse
is "das Pferd"; now you put that dog in the genitive case,
and is he the same dog he was before? No, sir; he is "des
Hundes"} put him in the dative case and what is he?
Why, he is "dem Hund." Now you snatch him into the
accusative case and how is it with him? Why, he is "den
Hunden." But suppose he happened to be twins and you
have to pluralize him—what then? Why, they'll swat that
twin dog around through the 4 cases until he'll tnink
he's an entire inter-national dog-show all in his own per-
son. I don't like dogs, but I wouldn't treat a dog like
that—I wouldn't even treat a borrowed dog that way.
Well, it's just the same with a cat. They start her in at
the nominative singular in good health and fair to look
upon, and they sweat her through all the 4 cases and the
16 the's and when she limps out through the accusative
plural you wouldn't recognize her for the same being.
Yes, sir, once the German language gets hold of a cat it's
good-bye cat. That's about the amount of it.

May 28. Bought a couple of gorgeously dressed horrors
in castle museum to start a portrait gallery of my ances-
tors with. Paid $1.25 for the male portrait and $2.50 for
the lady. The gentleman has a most self-satisfied smirk,
but if he had known he would be sold to a base untitled

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