He often talked in a gloating fashion of that great day to his young charge.
Possibly that was one of the reasons which induced Prince Adalbert of Lippe-Schweidnitz to make so free with the castles and persons of the children of the so-soon-to-be-subjugated English.
The ogres of the sands having disappeared down the beach, the children repaired the damage to their castles and once more played in peace.

That afternoon there was another royal progress of the same devastating kind but more complete, since the prince surprised a little girl and pulled her hair.

The fond English mothers still observed him with a gloating air, happy to be on the same stretch of sand with him.

They said indulgently to one another: "Boys will be boys," or, with conviction: "Such a manly little fellow." This time the Baron von Habelschwert walked only fifteen yards behind the prince.

He smiled benignly on the destruction of the castles; plainly he felt that his young charge was treating the so-soon-to-be-subjugated English in the right spirit.
There was only one check to the royal progress.