Blood and Iron

"The Wooden Donkey dies today!" French Ca

Bismarck; and in Otto's case, although the years gradually taught him that there are more ways of stopping a man's mouth than by cutting off his head, on th

ey must have game, fish, cake, wines, and plenty of each. Hunge

wed the hounds, fought duels, had noisy ton

they hated it was the same. They dran

it may be that the turbulence of their lives borrowed something from the rude clash of opinion that often

was wont to add zest to the carousal by introducing the trumpet call after each toast; to heighte

n all revels, was generally voted one of the amiable men in army circles. He w

nishments; it took the amusing style of a wooden donk

o march to the bridge; on arriving the band struck up and the wooden donkey was thrown into the s

ng donkey would be put overboard-only to be brou

rick the Great and was severely wounded at Czaslau. Austrian hussars surprised the transport wagons carrying the wounded to the rear, and

vial. He is remembered for his affected poetical style. Karl, brave soldier, attracted the eye of no less a judge of val

en a German is sentimental, the mush-pots boil over. Karl's writings show that pecu

, born Mencken, lived at Schoenhausen in troublous French times. Oct. 14t

t, and the panic-stricken king fled to the

ter the marriage of Karl and Louise, who h

m; Louise fled to the library and locked the massive oak door; to this day it bears the marks of French bayonets; the Bismarcks then hid in the for

d, was the desecration of the genealogical tree. This huge painting with it

e French after Sedan-do not for a moment forget that! Such is the amazing power of here

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