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from the Emperor Francis Joseph. Hanoverians 

 they are. Soft things. No use, except for toys." 



" Do you think there is anything in the 

 colour of a horse ? " I asked. " They say a good 

 horse can't be a bad colour ? " 



"Well, I don't know," Mr. Tanring replies. 

 "Alight horse often has alight thin skin; the 

 least thing scratches it. Just the same with a 

 man. Take a sun-burnt gipsy fellow, and hit 

 him on the head with a hamuier and you won't 

 hurt him much." 



Thinking that so tough a man, so little sus- 

 ceptible to injury, would hardly perhaps be the 

 best one to select to try such experiments on, 

 I follow the proprietor of the big show to look 

 at the famous carriage in which, before the per- 

 formers begin their business, they are di-awn 

 round the ring ; evidently one of the special 

 treasures. 



" That carriage," its owner proceeds, " was 

 sent to President Lincoln soon after his election, 

 but it was too fine for him — he didn't care for 

 that sort of thing — so I bought it, took it from 

 New York to Hamburg, when there was all that 

 business about a Congress after the Franco- 

 Prussian war. All the emperors and kings were 

 there, you know, in state, but they were ' not 

 in it.' Most of them came to look at it — that 



