Show heching hell ting the donkey th the e late emperor frederick when he was crown prince while walking in the woods near the palace at potsdam one morning perceived an old milk woman who was pounding the ass attached to her milk wagon and talking in an excited tone to the animal the matter my good woman asked the prince 1 I am in a great hurry to serve my customers with milk replied the old woman who did not know the prince and this accursed brute refu refuses sesto to budge bude hut but if you would be kind enough to pull him by the ears while I 1 warm him film up behind with this club he be will go right along the good natured prince seized the animal by the ears and tugged away while the old woman mauled hauled the brute with her cudgel sure enough the donkey trotted on much to theroy the joy of the woman when the prince told his mother about it she rebuked him for being so familiar with the lower orders whereupon the prince laughingly replied my father has helped man many a donkey along at court st louis chube democrat |