appeared, steaming “perch-in-butter” for the tutor, and a plate of bread and butter and some grapes for the pupil.  The Prince cast a glance at the savoury dish and was then about to attack his frugal fare when the tutor suddenly said, “Prince, I’m very fond of grapes.  Can’t we for once exchange?  You eat my perch and I—­” The Prince joyfully agreed, plates were exchanged, and both were heartily enjoying the meal when the Crown Prince walked in.  Both pupil and tutor blushed a little, but the Crown Prince said nothing and seemed pleased to hear how well the lesson had gone that day.  At noon, however, as the tutor was leaving the palace, a servant stopped him and said, “His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would like to speak with the Herr Doktor.”

“Herr Doktor,” said the Crown Prince, “tell me how it was that the Prince to-day was eating the warm breakfast and you the cold.”

The tutor tried to make as little of the affair as possible.  It was a joke, he said, he had allowed himself, he had been so well pleased with his pupil that morning.

“Well, I will pass it over this time,” said the Crown Prince,

“but I must ask you to let the Prince get accustomed to bear the preference shown to his tutor and allow him to be satisfied with the simple food suitable for his age.  What will he eat twenty years hence, if he now gets roast meat?  Bread and fruit make a wholesome and perfectly satisfactory meal for a lad of his years.”

During second breakfast next day, the Prince took care not to look up from his plate of fruit, but when he had finished, murmured as though by way of grace, “After all, a fine bunch of grapes is a splendid lunch, and I really think I prefer it, Herr Doktor, to your nice-smelling perch-in-butter.”

The time had now come when the young Prince was to leave the paternal castle and submit to the discipline of school.  The parents, one may be sure, held many a conference on the subject.  The boy was beginning to have a character of his own, and his parents doubtless often had in mind Goethe’s lines:—­

     “Denn wir koennen die Kinder nach unserem Willen nicht formen,
     So wie Gott sie uns gab, so muss man sie lieben und haben,
     Sie erzielen aufs best und jeglichen lassen gewaehren.”

     ("We cannot have children according to our will: 
     as God gave them so must we love and keep them: 
     bring them up as best we can and leave each to its own
       development.”)

It had always been Hohenzollern practice to educate the Heir to the Throne privately until he was of an age to go to the university, but the royal parents now decided to make an important departure from it by sending their boy to an ordinary public school in some carefully chosen place.  The choice fell on Cassel, a quiet and beautiful spot not far from Wilhelmshohe, near Homburg, where there is a Hohenzollern castle, and which was the scene of Napoleon’s