fight. When the
second bull came in, and ripped the stomach out of a blind horse, and
the bull was just charging the man who was to stab it, dad couldn't
stand it any longer and he climbed right over into the ring, and he
said: "Look a here, you heathen; I protest, in the name of the American
Humane Society, against this cruelty to animals, and unless this
business stops right here I will have this place pulled, and------"

[Illustration: Dad couldn't stand it any longer 343]

Well, sir, you would of thought that bull would have had sense enough
to see that dad was his friend, but he probably couldn't understand what
dad was driving at, for he made a rush for dad, and dad started to run
for the fence, and the bull caught dad just like dad was sitting in a
rocking chair, and tossed him over the fence, and dad's pants stayed
on the bull's horns, and dad landed in amongst a lot of male and female
grandees and everybody yelled, "Bravo, Americano," and the police
wrapped a blanket around dad's legs and were going to take him to the
emergency hospital, but I claimed dad, and took him to the hotel. Dad is
ready to come home now. He says he is through.

Yours,

Hennery.

[Illustration: Dad's pants stayed on the bull's horns 349]

CHAPTER XXVIII.

The Bad Boy and His Dad at Berlin--They Call on Emperor
William and his Family and the Bad Boy Plays a Joke on Them
All.

Berlin, Germany.--My Dear Old Pummer-nickel: Now we have got pretty near
home, and you would enjoy it to be with us, because you couldn't tell
the town from Milwaukee, except for the military precision with which
everything is conducted, where you never take a glass of beer without
cracking your heels together like a soldier, and giving a military
salute to the bartender, who is the commander-in-chief of all who happen
to patronize his bar. Everybody here acts like he was at a picnic in the
woods, with a large barrel of beer, with perspiration oozing down the
outside, and a spigot of the largest size, which fills a schooner at one
turn of the wrist, and every man either smiles or laughs out loud, and
you feel as though there was happiness everywhere, and that heaven was
right here in this greatest German city.

[Illustration: There is laughter everywhere 353]

There is laughter everywhere, except when the Emperor drives by,
escorted by his bodyguard, on the finest horses in the world; then
every citizen on the street stops smiling a