he Princess
Royal asked the Queen, "Where is Lord----?" "He has gone back to London,
dear." "Oh, what a pity! He had promised to show Berty and me his foot!"
The _enfants terrible_ had wilily caught his lordship in the corridor,
and made their own terms.

There is pleasure in telling that story were it but for the revelation
it affords of how the children of Kings and Queens are animated by the
same curiosities, and may act at times so like the children of the
commonality. That Royalty again may be moved by the action or word of a
child of common birth we have many pleasing proofs. One is pat. A late
King of Prussia, while visiting in one of the villages of his dominion,
was welcomed by the school children. Their sponsor made a speech for
them. The King thanked them. Then, taking an orange from a plate, he
asked--"To what kingdom does this belong?" "The vegetable kingdom,
sire," replied a little girl. The King next took a gold coin from his
pocket, and, holding it up, asked--"And to what kingdom does this
belong?" "To the mineral kingdom," was the reply. "And to what kingdom
do I belong then?" asked the King. The little girl coloured deeply; for
she did not like to say the "animal kingdom," as he thought she would,
lest His Majesty should be offended. But just then it flashed upon her
mind that "God made man in His own image," and looking up with
brightening eye, she said--"To God's Kingdom, sire." The King was moved.
A tear stood in his eye. He placed his hand on the child's head, and
said, most devoutly--"God grant that I may be accounted worthy of that
Kingdom." Thus did the words of a common child, you see, move the heart
of a King. But, oh, we are all the same. It is only the environment that
is different. And the distinction there even is not so great as one, not
knowing, may be disposed to imagine. In high and low life alike, anyway,
the children, we know, are free; and all alike are susceptible of
eccentricity. What a fine confession of this the Princess of Wales made
not long ago when, as Duchess of York, she was addressing a Girls'
Society in London. As a school-girl, she said, she disliked geography;
of which, she added, she was very ignorant. Once she was set to draw an
outline map of the world from memory. "On showing it to my governess,"
said the Princess, "she said in quite an alarmed manner--'Why, you have
left out China! Don't you know where it is?' 'Yes,' I replied, very
stubbornly, but very loyally, '