"No," replied the Deputation; "and the same painful omission is observable in the Almanac de Gotha. So we would petition on our knees that the painful omission should be supplied. We ask that the Prince——"
"Stop! stop!" cried the Bear. "You are talking of a myth. As Mrs. Gamp—a well-known Englishwoman—once observed, 'I don't believe there ain't no sech person.' So think I, and so thinks the Treaty of Berlin."
And so the Deputation returned from whence they came, and "the Prince" continued to "take the waters" without obtaining the cure he desired. It was disappointing to His Highness, but not to the Editor of the Almanac de Gotha, who found a revised edition of his excellent periodical was, at least for the present, unnecessary.
What title will Baron de Worms take? Viscount Chrysalis? to end by becoming Le Duc de Papillon?
Br-ce. B-nn-rm-n. Asq-th.
A PARLIAMENTARY PROSPECT.