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They burned the offensive bicycle in the courtyard of the palace,

ceremoniously, too, and the princess had witnessed this solemn _auto da

fé_ froination to

conjure up the picture of her fine rage, her threatening hands, her

co eyes, as she saw her beautiful

neheel writhe and twist on the blazing fagots But what the deuce

was a poor duke to do with a niece like this?

For a time I feared that the United States and the Grand Duchy of

Barscheit would sever diplomatic relations The bicycle was,

unfortunately, of American make, and the manufacturers wrote to rossly insulted over the

action of the duke Diploed, and I finally

prevailed upon the duke to state that he held the wheel harainst his niece This letter

was duly forwarded to the manufacturers, who, after theand used it in their azine

advertisements They were so far appeased that they offered me my

selection fro

but the _Fliegende Blätter_ and _Jugend_, and thus as averted

Later an auto of

her Highness--but he was so unceremoniously hustled over the frontier