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Show Express. A German princeling went to pay a visit of ceremony to a small but ancient an-cient and honorable city situated upon a branch line of railway. His serene highness had just stepped from his private car upon the bunting-bedecked station platform. Greetings had been exchanged with the local receiving party. "And what," Gaid the prince to the burgomaster, "are those children doing do-ing there on the tracks?" "Serene highness," replied the burgomaster, bur-gomaster, bowing low, "those are the young maidens of the city who ran before and scattered flowers in front of the locomotive of your highnesses' train." |