up to the elbows into the pockets of his trousers. He desired to

learn about the large game of America, particularly the buffalo, and

when I spoke of the herds of thousands and thousands I had seen on

the plains of western Kansas, he interrupted me to bemoan the fate

which kept him from visiting America to hunt, even going so far as to

say that "he didn't wish to be King of Italy, anyhow, but would much

prefer to pass his days hunting than be bedeviled with the cares of

state." On one of his estates, near Pisa, he had several large herds