THE TRAGEDY OF A ROYAL NURSERY.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 66, 14 September 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE TRAGEDY OF A ROYAL NURSERY.

» In an illustrated character sketch of the German Empress in The Young Woman for July, we are told of a nursery tragedy which was discovered a little while ago by the Empress at Potsdam. The bigger boys had been spending the afternoon with some friends, who had a fine collection of pet animals, among them some wonderful small rabbits. The Crown Prince was enchanted with the latter, sat in front of them all the time, and could hardly be got away when it was time to go home. Shortly after the boys had left, it was found that a tiny white rabbit of a particularly rare breed was missing. The Empress heard of it, and told her boys next morning, adding not a word to the actual fact. The Crown J^rince turned crimson, looked despair, and presently it came out that the child, unable to resist the temptation of keeping the pretty creature a little longer, had carried it home in the wide sleeve of his sailorjacket,- and had carefully locked it up for the night in a drawer. It was to have stayed on a visit at the palace, but he had to take it back himself and apologise, which he did with tears of repentance that were the bitterer because he saw how grieved his adored mother was over the occurrence.