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The Hohenzollerns In America: (Stephen Leacock Classics Collection)

The Hohenzollerns In America: (Stephen Leacock Classics Collection)

Leacock, Stephen

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1508765146
ISBN13: 9781508765141
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 6 2015
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
When we got up from supper, the ship was heaving and rolling quite a bit. A young man, a steward, told us that we were now out of the harbor and in the open sea. Uncle William told him to convey his compliments to the captain on his proper navigation of the channel. The young man looked very closely at Uncle and said, Sure, I'll tell him right away, but he said it kindly. Then he said to me, when Uncle couldn't hear, Your pa ain't quite right, is he, Miss Hohen? I didn't know what he meant, but, of course, I said that Uncle William was only my uncle. Hohen is, I should explain, the name by which we are known now. The young man said that he wasn't really a steward, only just for the trip. He said that, because I had a strange feeling that I had met him before, and asked him if I hadn't seen him at one of the courts. But he said he had never been up before one in his life. He said he lives in New York, and drives an ice-wagon and is an ice-man. He said he was glad to have the pleasure of our acquaintance. He is, I think, the first ice-man I have ever met. He reminds me very much of the Romanoffs, the Grand Dukes of the younger branch, I mean. But he says he is not connected with them, so far as he knows. He said his name is Peters. We have no Almanach de Gotha here on board the steamer, so I cannot look up his name.

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