"
"That's very good of Your Majesty," replied Mr. Roosevelt, "and
I'll be there. But unfortunately I have an engagement, so that
I'll only be able to give you twenty minutes."
Another story concerns a little boy,--the Crown Prince of one of
the countries where royal folk have simpler and better manners
than in Germany. He and his parents and other persons of royal
rank were at the palace where Mr. Roosevelt was staying. As any
man would know, boys are interested in much the same things
whether they are princes or not, and this one was greatly taken by
Mr. Roosevelt's stories of hunting, and by being taught some of
the games which the American father and his boys had played in the
White House, not many years before. So it happened that as a group
of the visitors, including two or three kings and queens, stepped
out of one of the rooms of the palace into a corridor one evening,
they were astonished to see a gentleman down on his hands and
knees on a rug, playing "bear" with a little boy. The gentleman
was the Ex-President of the United States, and the boy was the
future King of one of the countries of Europe.
Roosevelt's return to New York was the signal for a tremendous
reception. New York outdid itself in salutes, parades, and wildly
cheering crowds. Nothing like it had been seen before. Even after
the excitement of the first day of his return, he could not go out
without being surrounded by cheering crowds.
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