*** =The Kaiser feels his feet. This cartoon caused _Punch_ to be excluded for a while from the Imperial Palace.=
Illustration: THE STORY OF FIDGETY WILHELM.
(_Up-to-date Version of "Struwwelpeter."_)
"LET ME SEE IF WILHELM CAN BE A LITTLE GENTLEMAN; LET ME SEE IF HE IS ABLE TO SIT STILL FOR ONCE AT TABLE!"
JUST LIKE ANY BUCKING HORSE. "WILHELM! WE ARE GETTING CROSS!"
*** =The Kaiser worries his friends of the Triple Alliance.=
_Imperial "Manager-Actor"_ (_who has cast himself for a leading part in "Un Voyage en Chine," sotto voce_). "UM--HA! WITH JUST A FEW ADDITIONAL TOUCHES HERE AND THERE, I SHALL MAKE A FIRST-RATE EMPEROR OF CHINA!"
_Imperial Knight Templar_ (_the German Emperor--to_ SALADIN). "_WHAT!!_ THE CHRISTIAN POWERS PUTTING PRESSURE UPON _YOU_, MY DEAR FRIEND!! HORRIBLE! I CAN'T THINK HOW PEOPLE CAN DO SUCH THINGS!"
*** =The Kaiser sympathises with the Turk.=
KAISER WILHELM (_as the Moor of Potsdam_) _sings_:--
"'UNTER DEN LINDEN'--ALWAYS AT HOME, 'UNDER THE LIME-LIGHT' WHEREVER I ROAM!"
SCENE--_On shore, during the visit of the British Fleet to Brest._
MR. PUNCH (_Photographer, suavely, to the_ KAISER). "JUST A LEETLE FURTHER BACK, PLEASE, SIR. YOUR SHADOW STILL RATHER INTERFERES WITH THE GROUP."
*** =The Kaiser (not for the first time) is out of it with England and France.=
PEACE (_attending the Inter-Parliamentary Congress at Berlin_). "EVERYBODY ELSE SEEMS TO BE MY FRIEND; WHY DO YOU STAND ALOOF?"
GERMAN KAISER. "BUT HAVEN'T I ALWAYS SAID THAT I WAS YOUR FRIEND?"
PEACE. "YES; BUT CAN'T YOU DO SOMETHING TO PROVE IT?"
*** =The Kaiser as the platonic friend of Peace.=
[The GERMAN EMPEROR has been patronising the Centenary of KRUPP'S Gun Factory.]
*** =The Kaiser prepares for the Millennium (Prussian Version).=
Illustration: THE COMING OF THE COSSACKS.
WILHELM II. "WHAT IS THIS DISTANT RUMBLING THAT I HEAR? DOUBTLESS THE PLAUDITS OF MY PEOPLE!"
SPIRIT OF CARNAGE. "A FRIEND--YOUR ONLY ONE."
Bradbury, Agnew & Co., Printers. London & Tonbridge.
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