Be thankful then that it is only the little Princess Helene that is sitting here." "I think I had the honor to meet your father," said Gottfried Gottfried, gravely, again removing the restless baby fingers from the Red Axe and laying it on the far side of the couch beyond him.
"Then, if you met him, did he not make you bow and bend and walk backward ?" asked the Playmate, looking up very sharply.
"Well, you see, Princess," explained my father, "it was for such a very short time that I had the honor of converse with him." "Ah, that does not matter," cried the maid; "often he would be most difficult when you came running in just for a moment.

Why, he would straighten you up and make you do your bows if you were only racing after a kitten, or, what was worse, he would call the Court Chamberlain to show you how to do it.

But when I am grown up--ah, then!--I mean to make the Chamberlain bow and walk backward; for you know he is only taking care of my princedom for me.

Oh, and I shall have you well taught by that time, long man.

It is cold--cold.