. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. giment 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 firedoff volleys in the hall, to heighten the noise. Then the Colonelwould march with the whole mess, preceded by the band andfollowed by the whole regiment, to the bridge of Ihna, where theWooden D
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. giment 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 firedoff volleys in the hall, to heighten the noise. Then the Colonelwould march with the whole mess, preceded by the band andfollowed by the whole regiment, to the bridge of Ihna, where theWooden Donkey stood. This terrible instrument of punishment—riding the Donkey was like riding the rail—was then castinto the Ihna, amidst execrations and applause. All offendersare forgiven, and the Donkey shall die! But the applause ofthe dragoons could not have been very sincere, for they knewvery well that the Provost would set up the Donkey in all itsterrors the very next morning; therefore they only huzzaed toplease their facetious This is a picture of garrison life under King Frederick WilliamI. There still exists a hunting register belonging to this oldworthy, which reports that the old soldier in one year had shot a INTRODUCTION TO DR. BONNELL. \\q hundred stags—an unlikely event nowadays. One of the firstsportsmen of the present day— Prince Frederick Charlesof Prussia—shot three hundred head of game between the 18thof September, 1848, and the 18th of September, 1868, pronouncedworthy of fire. A correspondence of the old Colonels is stillextant, which evinces a highly eccentric stanchness; in this hiscousin, the cunning diplomatist Yon Dewitz, afterwards Ambas-sador to Vienna, is severely enough handled. It was doubtlessfrom these statements of the acute colonel of cavalry that theGreat Frederick did not allow his son, Charles Alexander, to ac-company him to Vienna in the Embassy, but ordered him to be-come a cornet, with some very unflattering expre
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