. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. more un-frequent; Madame von Bismarck had very likely encounteredsome slights from the proud families of the Alt Mark and ofPomerania, and caste feeling could scarcely have been felt byBismarck in his childhood. It was not any want of sympathywith his school-fellows, but the democratic doctrines of some ofthe masters, which roused the Junker in the bosom of the proudlad. We shall see that in later years it was the incapacity of twomasters at the Graue Kloster which caused them to handle him HOLIDAY TIMES. 113 ungently, because of his noble birth,
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. more un-frequent; Madame von Bismarck had very likely encounteredsome slights from the proud families of the Alt Mark and ofPomerania, and caste feeling could scarcely have been felt byBismarck in his childhood. It was not any want of sympathywith his school-fellows, but the democratic doctrines of some ofthe masters, which roused the Junker in the bosom of the proudlad. We shall see that in later years it was the incapacity of twomasters at the Graue Kloster which caused them to handle him HOLIDAY TIMES. 113 ungently, because of his noble birth, and thus impelled him to re-sistance. It is easy to understand that Otto von Bismarck, as long as hestayed at the hateful Plamann Institute, and at the Gymnasium,longed ardently for the holidays, for these times are the brightstars in the heaven of every schoolboy. And how was the holiday journey performed in those daysfrom Berlin to Kniephof in the Circle Naugard ? The stage-coach of Nagler—then the pride of Prussia—set off in the even-. ing from Berlin, and arrived at Stettin at noon the next were not over-good roads at that time from Berlin to thecapital of Pomerania. From Stettin young Bismarck proceeded,with horses sent by his parents, to Gollnow, where his grandfa-ther was born, and where proverbially there was a fire once afortnight. In Gollnow he slept at the house of an aged widownamed Dalmer, who held some relation to the family. Thisaged lady used to tell the eager lad stories of his great grandfa-ther the Colonel von Bismarck, who fell at Czaslau, and whoonce lay in garrison at Gollnow with his regiment of dragoons—the Schulenburg Regiment, afterwards the Anspach almost a century, the memory of the famous warrior and 8 114 THE WOODEN DONKEY OF IHNA BRIDGE. huntsman remained alive. Stories were told of the Colonels finedogs and horses. When he gave a banquet, not only did thesound of trumpet accompany each toast, but the dragoons fired
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