Well, sir, this Kuno was one day in fault, and Otto, who has a quick temper, up with his whip and thrashed him, they do say, soundly.

Kuno took it as best he could, but at last he broke out, and dared the Prince to throw his whip away and wrestle like a man; for we are all great at wrestling in these parts, and it's so that we generally settle our disputes.

Well, sir, the Prince did so; and, being a weakly creature, found the tables turned; for the man whom he had just been thrashing like a negro slave, lifted him with a back grip and threw him heels overhead.' 'He broke his bridle-arm,' cried Fritz--'and some say his nose.

Serve him right, say I! Man to man, which is the better at that ?' 'And then ?' asked Otto.
'O, then Kuno carried him home; and they were the best of friends from that day forth.

I don't say it's a discreditable story, you observe,' continued Mr.Gottesheim; 'but it's droll, and that's the fact.