Parade the men, Colonel Tickelstern, after breakfast, and give these scoundrels five hundred apiece." You should have seen how young Otto bounded, when this information was thus abruptly conveyed to him.

"Flog ME!" cried he.

"Flog Otto of--" "Not so, my father," said the Princess Helen, who had been standing by during the conversation, and who had looked at Otto all the while with the most ineffable scorn.

"Not so: although these PERSONS have forgotten their duty" (she laid a particularly sarcastic emphasis on the word persons), "we have had no need of their services, and have luckily found OTHERS more faithful.

You promised your daughter a boon, papa; it is the pardon of these two PERSONS.