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+APPENDIX.
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+
+This Piece, it would seem, was translated sixteen years ago;
+some four or five years before any part of the present HISTORY OF
+FRIEDRICH got to paper. The intercalated bits of Commentary were,
+as is evident, all or mostly written at the same time:--these also,
+though they are now become, in parts, SUPERFLUOUS to a reader that
+has been diligent, I have not thought of changing, where not
+compelled. Here and there, especially in the Introductory Part,
+some slight additions have crept in;--which the above kind of
+reader will possibly enough detect; and may even have, for friendly
+reasons, some vestige of interest in assigning to their new date
+and comparing with the old. (NOTE OF 1868.)
+
+
+
+A DAY WITH FRIEDRICH.
+(23d July, 1779.)
+
+"OBERAMTMANN (Head-Manager) Fromme" was a sister's son of Poet,
+Gleim,--Gleim Canon of Halberstadt, who wrote Prussian "grenadier-
+songs" in, or in reference to, the Seven-Years War, songs still
+printed, but worth little; who begged once, after Friedrich's
+death, an OLD HAT of his, and took it with him to Halberstadt
+(where I hope it still is); who had a "Temple-of-Honor," or little
+Garden-house so named, with Portraits of his Friends hung in it;
+who put Jean Paul VERY SOON there, with a great explosion of
+praises; and who, in short, seems to have been a very good
+effervescent creature, at last rather wealthy too, and able to
+effervesce with some comfort;--Oberamtmann Fromme, I say, was this
+Gleim's Nephew; and stood as a kind of Royal Land-Bailiff under
+Frederick the Great, in a tract of country called the RHYN-LUCH (a
+dreadfully moory country of sands and quagmires, all green and
+fertile now, some twenty or thirty miles northwest of Berlin);
+busy there in 1779, and had been for some years past. He had
+originally been an Officer of the Artillery; but obtained his
+discharge in 1769, and got, before long, into this employment.
+A man of excellent disposition and temper; with a solid and heavy
+stroke of work in him, whatever he might be set to; and who in this
+OBERAMTMANNSHIP "became highly esteemed." He died in 1798; and has
+left sons (now perhaps grandsons or great-grandsons), who continue
+estimable in like situations under the Prussian Government.
+
+One of Fromme's useful gifts, the usefulest of all for us at
+present, was "his wonderful talent of exact memory." He could
+remember to a singular extent; and, we will hope, on this occasion,
+was unusually conscientious to do it. For it so happened, in July,
+1779 (23d July), Friedrich, just home from his troublesome Bavarian
+War, [Had arrived at Berlin May 27th (Rodenbeck, iii. 201).] and
+again looking into everything with his own eyes, determined to have
+a personal view of those Moor Regions of Fromme's; to take a day's
+driving through that RHYN-LUCH which had cost him so much effort
+and outlay; and he ordered Fromme to attend him in the expedition.
+Which took effect accordingly; Fromme riding swiftly at the left
+wheel of Friedrich's carriage, and loudly answering questions of
+his, all day.--Directly on getting home, Fromme consulted his
+excellent memory, and wrote down everything; a considerable Paper,
+--of which you shall now have an exact Translation, if it be worth
+anything. Fromme gave the Paper to Uncle Gleim; who, in his
+enthusiasm, showed it extensively about, and so soon as there was
+liberty, had it "printed, at his own expense, for the benefit of
+poor soldiers' children." ["Gleim's edition, brought out in 1786,
+the year of Friedrich's death, is now quite gone,--the Book
+undiscoverable. But the Paper was reprinted in an ANEKDOTEN-
+SAMMLUNG (Collection of Anecdotes, Berlin, 1787, 8tes STUCK, where
+I discover it yesterday (17th July, 1852) in a copy of mine, much
+to my surprise; having before met with it in one Hildebrandt's
+ANEKDOTEN-SAMMLUNG (Halberstadt, 1830, 4tes STUCK, a rather
+slovenly Book), where it is given out as one of the rarest of all
+rarities, and as having been specially 'furnished by a Dr. W.
+Korte,' being unattainable otherwise! The two copies differ
+slightly here and there,--not always to Dr. Korte's advantage, or
+rather hardly ever. I keep them both before me in translating"
+(MARGINALE OF 1852).
+
+"The RHYN" or Rhin, is a little river, which, near its higher
+clearer sources, we were all once well acquainted with:
+considerable little moorland river, with several branches coming
+down from Ruppin Country, and certain lakes and plashes there, in a
+southwest direction, towards the Elbe valley, towards the Havel
+Stream; into which latter, through another plash or lake called
+GULPER SEE, and a few miles farther, into the Elbe itself, it
+conveys, after a course of say 50 English miles circuitously
+southwest, the black drainings of those dreary and intricate
+Peatbog-and-Sand countries. "LUCH," it appears, signifies LOCH (or
+Hole, Hollow); and "Rhyn-Luch" will mean, to Prussian ears, the
+Peatbog Quagmire drained by the RHYN.--New Ruppin, where this
+beautiful black Stream first becomes considerable, and of steadily
+black complexion, lies between 40 and 50 miles northwest of Berlin.
+Ten or twelve miles farther north is REINSBERG (properly
+RHYNSBERG), where Friedrich as Crown-Prince lived his happiest few
+years. The details of which were familiar to us long ago,--and no
+doubt dwell clear and soft, in their appropriate "pale moonlight,"
+in Friedrich's memory on this occasion. Some time after his
+Accession, he gave the place to Prince Henri, who lived there till
+1802. It is now fallen all dim; and there is nothing at New Ruppin
+but a remembrance.
+
+To the hither edge of this Rhyn-Luoh, from Berlin, I guess there
+may be five-and-twenty miles, in a northwest direction;
+from Potsdam, whence Friedrich starts to-day, about, the same
+distance north-by-west; "at Seelenhorst," where Fromme waits him,
+Friedrich has already had 30 miles of driving,--rate 10 miles an
+hour, as we chance to observe. Notable things, besides the Spade-
+husbandries he is intent on, solicit his remembrance in this
+region. Of Freisack and "Heavy-Peg" with her didactic batterings
+there, I suppose he, in those fixed times, knows nothing, probably
+has never heard: Freisack is on a branch of this same Rhyn, and he
+might see it, to left a mile or two, if he cared.
+
+But Fehrbellin ("Ferry of BellEEN"), distinguished by the shining
+victory which "the Great Elector," Friedrich's Great-Grandfather,
+gained there, over the Swedes, in 1675, stands on the Rhyn itself,
+about midway; and Friedrich will pass through it on this occasion.
+General Ziethen, too, lives near it at Wusterau (as will be seen):
+"Old Ziethen," a little stumpy man, with hanging brows and thick
+pouting lips; unbeautiful to look upon, but pious, wise, silent,
+and with a terrible blaze of fighting-talent in him; full of
+obedience, of endurance, and yet of unsubduable "silent rage"
+(which has brooked even the vocal rage of Friedrich, on occasion);
+a really curious old Hussar General. He is now a kind of mythical
+or demigod personage among the Prussians; and was then (1779), and
+ever after the Seven-Years War, regarded popularly as their Ajax
+(with a dash of the Ulysses superadded),--Seidlitz, another Horse
+General, being the Achilles of that service.
+
+The date of this drive through the moors being "23d July, 1779," we
+perceive it is just about two months since Friedrich got home from
+the Bavarian War (what they now call "POTATO WAR," so barren was it
+in fighting, so ripe in foraging); victorious in a sort;--and that
+in his private thought, among the big troubles of the world on both
+sides of the Atlantic, the infinitesimally small business of the
+MILLER ARNOLD'S LAWSUIT is beginning to rise now and then.
+[Supra 415, 429. Preuss, i. 362; &c. &c.]
+
+Friedrich is now 67 years old; has reigned 39: the Seven-Years War
+is 16 years behind us; ever since which time Friedrich has been an
+"old man,"--having returned home from it with his cheeks all
+wrinkled, his temples white, and other marks of decay, at the age
+of 51. The "wounds of that terrible business," as they say, "are
+now all healed," perhaps above 100,000 burnt houses and huts
+rebuilt, for one thing; and the "ALTE FRITZ," still brisk and wiry,
+has been and is an unweariedly busy man in that affair, among
+others. What bogs he has tapped and dried, what canals he has dug,
+and stubborn strata he has bored through,--assisted by his Prussian
+Brindley (one Brenkenhof, once a Stable-boy at Dessau);--and ever
+planting "Colonies" on the reclaimed land, and watching how they
+get on! As we shall see on this occasion,--to which let us hasten
+(as to a feast not of dainties, but of honest SAUERKRAUT and
+wholesome herbs), without farther parley.
+
+Oberamtmann Fromme (whom I mark "Ich") LOQUITUR: "Major-General
+Graf von Gortz," whom Fromme keeps strictly mute all day, is a
+distinguished man, of many military and other experiences;
+much about Friedrich in this time and onwards. [Supra, 399.]
+Introduces strangers, &c.; Bouille took him for "Head Chamberlain,"
+four or five years after this. He is ten years the King's junior;
+a Hessian gentleman;--eldest Brother of the Envoy Gortz who in his
+cloak of darkness did such diplomacies in the Bavarian matter,
+January gone a year, and who is a rising man in that line ever
+since. But let Fromme begin:-- [<italic> Anekdoten und Karakterzuge
+aus dem Leben Friedrich des Zweyten <end italic> (Berlin, bei
+Johann Friedrich Unger, 1787), 8te Sammlung, ss. 15-79.]
+
+"On the 23d of July, 1779, it pleased his Majesty the King to
+undertake a journey to inspect those" mud "Colonies in the Rhyn-
+Luch about Neustadt-on-the-Dosse, which his Majesty, at his own
+cost, had settled; thereby reclaiming a tract of waste moor (EINEN
+ODEN BRUCH URBAR MACHEN) into arability, where now 308 families
+have their living.
+
+"His Majesty set off from Potsdam about 5 in the morning," in an
+open carriage, General von Gortz along with him, and horses from
+his own post-stations; "travelled over Ferlaudt, Tirotz,
+Wustermark, Nauen, Konigshorst, Seelenhorst, Dechau, Fehrbellin,"
+[See Reimann's KREIS-KARTEN, Nos. 74,73.] and twelve other small
+peat villages, looking all their brightest in the morning sun,--
+"to the hills at Stollen, where his Majesty, because a view of all
+the Colonies could be had from those hills, was pleased to get out
+for a little," as will afterwards be seen.--"Therefrom the journey
+went by Hohen-Nauen to Rathenau:" a civilized place, "where his
+Majesty arrived about 3 in the afternoon; and there dined, and
+passed the night.-- Next morning, about 6, his Majesty continued
+his drive into the Magdeburg region; inspected various reclaimed
+moors (BRUCHE), which in part are already made arable, and in part
+are being made so; came, in the afternoon, about 4, over Ziesar and
+Brandenburg, back to Potsdam,--and did not dine till about 4, when
+he arrived there, and had finished the Journey." His usual dinner-
+hour is 12; the STATE hour, on gala days when company has been
+invited, is 1 P.M.,--and he always likes his dinner; and has it of
+a hot peppery quality!
+
+"Till Seelenhorst, the Amtsrath Sach of Konigshorst had ridden
+before his Majesty; but here," at the border of my Fehrbellin
+district, where with one of his forest-men I was in waiting by
+appointment, "the turn came for me. About 8 o'clock A.M. his
+Majesty arrived in Seelenhorst; had the Herr General Graf von Gortz
+in the carriage with him," Gortz, we need n't say, sitting back
+foremost:--here I, Fromme, with my woodman was respectfully in
+readiness. "While the horses were changing, his Majesty spoke with
+some of the Ziethen Hussar-Officers, who were upon grazing service
+in the adjoining villages [all Friedrich's cavalry went out to
+GRASS during certain months of the year; and it was a LAND-TAX on
+every district to keep its quota of army-horses in this manner,--
+AUF GRASUNG]; and of me his Majesty as yet took no notice. As the
+DAMME," Dams or Raised Roads through the Peat-bog, "are too narrow
+hereabouts, I could not, ride beside him," and so went before? or
+BEHIND, with woodman before? GOTT WEISS! "In Dechau his Majesty got
+sight of Rittmeister von Ziethen," old Ajax Ziethen's son, "to whom
+Dechau belongs; and took him into the carriage along with him, till
+the point where the Dechau boundary is. Here there was again change
+of horses. Captain von Rathenow, an old favorite of the King's, to
+whom the property of Karvesee in part belongs, happened to be here
+with his family; he now went forward to the carriage:--
+
+CAPTAIN VON RATHENOW. "'Humblest servant, your Majesty!'
+[UNTERTHANIGSTER KNECHT, different from the form of ending letters,
+but really of the same import].
+
+KING. "'Who are you?'
+
+CAPTAIN. "'I am Captain von Rathenow from Karvesee.'
+
+KING (clapping his hands together). "'Mein Gott, dear Rathenow, are
+you still alive! ["LEBT ER NOCH, is HE still alive?"--way of
+speaking to one palpably your inferior, scarcely now in use even to
+servants; which Friedrich uses ALWAYS in speaking to the highest
+uncrowned persons: it gives a strange dash of comic emphasis often
+in his German talk:] I thought you were long since dead. How goes
+it with you 7 Are you whole and well?"
+
+CAPTAIN. "'O ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Mein Gott, how fat He has (you are) grown!'
+
+CAPTAIN. "'Ja, your Majesty, I can still eat and drink; only the
+feet get lazy' [won't go so well, WOLLEN NICHT FORT].
+
+KING. "'Ja! that is so with me too. Are you married?'
+
+CAPTAIN. "'Yea, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Is your wife among the ladies yonder?'
+
+CAPTAIN. "'Yea, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Bring her to me, then!' [TO HER, TAKING OFF HIS HAT]
+'I find in your Herr Husband a good old friend.'
+
+FRAU VON RATHENOW. "'Much grace and honor for my husband!'
+
+KING. "'What were YOU by birth?' ["WAS SIND SIE," the respectful
+word, "FUR EINE GEBORNE?"]
+
+FRAU. "'A Fraulein von Krocher.'
+
+KING. "'Haha! A daughter of General von Krocher's?'
+
+FRAU. "'JA, IHRO MAJESTAT.'
+
+KING. "'Oh, I knew him very well.'--[TO RATHENOW] 'Have you
+children too, Rathenow?'
+
+CAPTAIN. "'Yes, your Majesty. My sons are in the service,'
+soldiering; 'and these are my daughters.'
+
+KING. "'Well, I am glad of that (NUN, DAS FREUT MICH). Fare HE
+well. Fare He well.'
+
+"The road now went upon Fehrbellin; and Forster," Forester, "Brand,
+as woodkeeper for the King in these parts, rode along with us.
+When we came upon the patch of Sand-knolls which lie near
+Fehrbellin, his Majesty cried:--
+
+"'Forester, why aren't these sand-knolls sown?'
+
+FORESTER. "'Your Majesty, they don't belong to the Royal Forest;
+they belong to the farm-ground. In part the people do sow them with
+all manner of crops. Here, on the right hand, they have sown
+fir-cones (KIENAPFEL)'.
+
+KING. "'Who sowed them?'
+
+FORESTER. "'The Oberamtmann [Fromme] here.'
+
+THE KING (TO ME). "'Na! Tell my Geheimer-Rath Michaelis that the
+sand-patches must be sown.'--[TO THE FORESTER] 'But do you know how
+fir-cones (KIENAPFEL) should be sown?'
+
+FORESTER. "'O ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Na! [a frequent interjection of Friedrich's and his
+Father's], how are they sown, then? From east to west, or from
+north to south?' ["VAN MORGEN GEGEN ABEND, ODER VAN ABEND GEGEN
+MORGEN?" so in ORIG. (p. 22);--but, surely, except as above, it has
+no sense? From north to south, there is but one fir-seed sown
+against the wind; from east to west, there is a whole row.]
+
+FORESTER. "'From east to west.'
+
+KING. "'That is right. But why?'
+
+FORESTER. "'Because the most wind comes from the west.'
+
+KING. "'That's right.'
+
+"Now his Majesty arrived at Fehrbellin; spoke there with Lieutenant
+Probst of the Ziethen Hussar regiment, [Probst is the leftmost
+figure in that Chodowiecki Engraving of the famous Ziethen-and-
+Friedrich CHAIR-scene, five years after this. (Supra. 374 n.)] and
+with the Fehrbellin Postmeister, Captain von Mosch. So soon as the
+horses were to, we continued our travel; and as his Majesty was
+driving close by my Big Ditches," GRABEN, trenches, main-drains,
+"which have been made in the Fehrbellin LUCH at the King's expense,
+I rode up to the carriage, and said:--
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, these now are the two new Drains, which by
+your Majesty's favor we have got here; and which keep the Luch dry
+for us.'
+
+KING. "'So, so; that I am glad of!--Who is He (are you)?'
+
+FROMME. "'Your Majesty, I am the Beamte here of Fehrbellin.'
+
+KING. "'What 's your name?'
+
+ICH. "'Fromme.'
+
+KING. "'Ha, ha! you are a son of the Landrath Fromme's.'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty's pardon. My father was Amtsrath in the
+AMT Luhnin.'
+
+KING. "'Amtsrath? Amtsrath? That isn't true! Your father was
+Landrath. I knew him very well.--But tell me now (SAGT MIR EINMAL)
+has the draining of the Luch been of much use to you here?'
+
+ICH. "'O ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Do you keep more cattle than your predecessor?' 
+
+ICH.  "'Yes, your Majesty. On this farm I keep 40 more; on all the
+farms together 70 more.'
+
+KING. "'That is right. The murrain (VIEHSEUCHE) is not here in
+this quarter?'
+
+ICH. "'No, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Have you had it here?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja.'
+
+KING. "'Do but diligently use rock-salt, you won't have the
+murrain again.'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty, I do use it too; but kitchen salt has
+very nearly the same effect.'
+
+KING. "'No, don't fancy that! You must n't pound the rock-salt
+small, but give it to the cattle so that they can lick it.'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, it shall be done.'
+
+KING. "'Are there still improvements needed here?'
+
+ICH. "'O ja, your Majesty. Here lies the Kemmensee [Kemmen-lake]:
+if that were drained out, your Majesty would gain some 1,800 acres
+[MORGEN, three-fifths English acre] of pasture-land, where
+colonists could be settled; and then the whole country would have
+navigation too, which would help the village of Fehrbellin and the
+town of Ruppin to an uncommon degree.'
+
+KING. "'I suppose so! Be a great help to you, won't it; and many
+will be ruined by the job, especially the proprietors of the ground
+NICHT WAHR?' [Ha?]
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty's gracious pardon [EW. MAJESTAT HALTEN ZU
+GNADEN,--hold me to grace]: the ground belongs to the Royal Forest,
+and there grows nothing but birches on it.'
+
+KING. "'Oh, if birchwood is all it produces, then we may see!
+But you must not make your reckoning without your host either, that
+the cost may not outrun the use.'
+
+ICH. "'The cost will certainly not outrun the use. For, first, your
+Majesty may securely reckon that eighteen hundred acres will be won
+from the water; that will be six-and-thirty colonists, allowing
+each 50 acres. And now if there were a small light toll put upon
+the raft-timber and the ships that will frequent the new canal,
+there would be ample interest for the outlay.'
+
+KING. "'Na, tell my Geheimer-Rath Michaelis of it. The man
+understands that kind of matters; and I will advise you to apply to
+the man in every particular of such things, and wherever you know
+that colonists can be settled. I don't want whole colonies at once;
+but wherever there are two or three families of them, I say apply
+to that man about it.'
+
+ICH. "'It shall he done, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Can't I see Wusterau,' where old Ajax Ziethen lives,
+'from here?'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty; there to the right, that is it.'
+It BELONGS to General von Ziethen; and terrible BUILDING he has had
+here,--almost all his life!
+
+KING. "'Is the General at home?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja.'
+
+KING. "'How do you know?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, the Rittmeister von Lestock lies in my village
+on GRAZING service; and last night the Herr General sent a letter
+over to him by a groom. In that way I know it.'
+
+KING. "'Did General von Ziethen gain, among others, by the draining
+of the Luch?'
+
+ICH. "'O ja; the Farm-stead there to the right he built in
+consequence, and has made a dairy there, which he could not have
+done, had not the Luch been drained.'
+
+KING. "'That I am glad of!--What is the Beamte's name in Alt-
+Ruppin?' [Old Ruppin, I suppose, or part of its endless "RUPPIN or
+RHYN MERE," catches the King's eye.]
+
+ICH. "'Honig.'
+
+KING. "'How long has he been there?'
+
+ICH. "'Since Trinity-term.'
+
+KING. "'Since Trinity-term! What was he before?'
+
+ICH. "'Kanonious' [a canon].
+
+KING. "'Kanonicus? Kanonicus? How the Devil comes a Kanonicus to be
+a Beamte?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, he is a young man who has money, and wanted to
+have the honor of being a Beamte of your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Why did n't the old one stay?'
+
+ICH. "'Is dead.'
+
+KING. "'Well, the widow might have kept his AMT, then!'
+
+ICH. "'Is fallen into poverty.'
+
+KING. "'By woman husbandry!'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty's pardon! She cultivated well, but a heap of
+mischances brought her down: those may happen to the best
+husbandman. I myself, two years ago, lost so many cattle by the
+murrain, and got no remission: since that, I never can get on
+again either.'
+
+KING. "'My son, to-day I have some disorder in my left ear, and
+cannot hear rightly on that side of my head' (!).
+
+ICH. "'It is a pity that Geheimer-Rath Michaelis has got the very
+same disorder!'--I now retired a little back from the carriage;
+I fancied his Majesty might take this answer ill.
+
+KING. "'Na, Amtmann, forward! Stay by the carriage; but TAKE CARE
+OF YOURSELF, THAT YOU DON'T GET HURT. SPEAK LOUD, I UNDERSTAND VERY
+WELL.' These words marked in Italics [capitals] his Majesty
+repeated at least ten times in the course of the journey. 'Tell me
+now, what is that village over on the right yonder?'
+
+ICH. "'Langen.'
+
+KING. "'To whom does it belong?'
+
+ICH. "'A third part of it to your Majesty, under the AMT of Alt-
+Ruppin; a third to Herr von Hagen; and then the High Church (DOHM)
+of Berlin has also tenants in it.'
+
+KING. "'You are mistaken, the High Church of Magdeburg.'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty's gracious pardon, the High Church of Berlin.'
+
+KING. "'But it is not so; the High Church of Berlin has no tenants!'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty's gracious pardon, the High Church of Berlin
+has three tenants in the village Karvesen in my own AMT.'
+
+KING. "'You mistake, it is the High Church of Magdeburg.'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, I must be a bad Beamte, if I did not know what
+tenants and what lordships there are in my own AMT.'
+
+KING. "'Ja, then you are in the right!--Tell me now: here on the
+right there must be an estate, I can't think of the name; name me
+the estates that lie here on the right.'
+
+ICH. "'Buschow, Rodenslieben, Sommerfeld, Beetz, Karbe.'
+
+KING. "'That's it, Karbe! To whom belongs that?'
+
+ICH. "'To Herr von Knesebeck.'
+
+KING. "'Was he in the service?'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, Lieutenant or Ensign in the Guards.'
+
+KING. "'In the Guards? [COUNTING ON HIS FINGERS.] You are right:
+he was Lieutenant in the Guards. I am very glad the Estate is still
+in the hands of the Knesebecks.--Na, tell me though, the road that
+mounts up here goes to Ruppin, and here to the left is the grand
+road for Hamburg?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Do you know how long it is since I was here last?'
+
+ICH. "'No.'
+
+KING. "'It is three-and-forty years. Cannot I see Ruppin
+somewhere here?'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty: the steeple rising there over the firs,
+that is Ruppin.'
+
+KING (leaning out of the carriage with his prospect-glass).
+"'Ja, ja, that is it, I know it yet. Can I see Drammitz hereabouts?'
+
+ICH. "'No, your Majesty: Drammitz lies too far to the left, close
+on Kiritz.'
+
+KING. "'Sha'n't we see it, when we come closer?'
+
+ICH. "'Maybe, about Neustadt; but I am not sure.'
+
+KING. "'Pity, that. Can I see Pechlin?'
+
+ICH. "'Not just now, your Majesty; it lies too much in the hollow.
+Who knows whether your Majesty will see it at all!'
+
+KING. "'Na, keep an eye; and if you see it, tell me. Where is the
+Beamte of Alt-Ruppin?'
+
+ICH. "'In Protzen, where we change horses, he will be.'
+
+KING. "'Can't we yet see Pechlin?'
+
+ICH. "'No, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'To whom belongs it now?'
+
+ICH. "'To a certain Schonermark.'
+
+KING. "'Is he of the Nobility?'
+
+ICH. "'No.'
+
+KING. "'Who had it before him?'
+
+ICH. "'The Courier (FELDJAGER) Ahrens; he got it by inheritance
+from his father. The property has always been in commoners'
+(BURGERLICHEN) hands.
+
+KING. "'That I am aware of. How call we the village here
+before us?'
+
+ICH. "'Walcho.'
+
+KING. "'To whom belongs it?'
+
+ICH. "'To you, your Majesty, under the Amt Alt-Ruppin.'
+
+KING. "'What is the village here before us?'
+
+ICH. "'Protzen.'
+
+KING. "'Whose is it?'
+
+ICH. "'Herr von Kleist's.'
+
+KING. "'What Kleist is that?'
+
+ICH. "'A son of General Kleist's.'
+
+KING. "'Of what General Kleist's.'
+
+ICH. "'His brother was FLUGELADJUTANT [WING-adjutant, whatever that
+may be] with your Majesty; and is now at Magdeburg, Lieutenant-
+Colonel in the Regiment Kalkstein.'
+
+KING. "'Ha, ha, that one! I know the Kleists very well. Has this
+Kleist been in the service too?'
+
+ICH. "'Yea, your Majesty; he was ensign in the regiment
+Prinz Ferdinand.'
+
+KING. "'Why did the man seek his discharge?'
+
+ICH. "'That I do not know.'
+
+KING. "'You may tell me, I have no view in asking: why did the man
+take his discharge?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, I really cannot say.'
+
+"We had now got on to Protzen. I perceived old General van Ziethen
+standing before the Manor-house in Protzen,"--rugged brave old
+soul; with his hanging brows, and strange dim-fiery pious old
+thoughts!--"I rode forward to the carriage and said:--
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, the Herr General von Ziethen is [are, SIND]
+also here.'
+
+KING. "'Where? where? Oh, ride forward, and tell the people to draw
+up; they must halt, I'll get out.'
+
+"And now his Majesty got out; and was exceedingly delighted at the
+sight of Herr General von Ziethen; talked with him and Herr von
+Kleist of many things: Whether the draining of the Luch had done
+him good; Whether the murrain had been there among their cattle?--
+and recommended rock-salt against the murrain. Suddenly his Majesty
+stept aside, turned towards me, and called: 'Amtmann! [THEN CLOSE
+INTO MY EAR] Who is the fat man there with the white coat?'
+
+ICH (ALSO CLOSE INTO HIS MAJESTY'S EAR). "'Your Majesty, that is
+the Landrath Quast, of the Ruppin Circle.'
+
+KING. "'Very well.'
+
+"Now his Majesty went back to General von Ziethen and Herr von
+Kleist, and spoke of different things. Herr von Kleist presented
+some very fine fruit to his Majesty; all at once his Majesty turned
+round, and said: 'Serviteur, Herr Landrath!'--As the Landrath ["fat
+man there with the white coat"] was stepping towards his Majesty,
+said his Majesty: 'Stay he there where he is; I know him. He is the
+Landrath von Quast!'["Very good indeed, old Vater Fritz; let him
+stand there in his white coat, a fat, sufficiently honored man!--
+Chodowiecki has an engraving of this incident;--I saw IT at the
+British Museum once, where they have only seven others on Friedrich
+altogether, all in one poor GOTHA ALMANAC; very small, very coarse,
+but very good: this Quast (Anglice 'Tassel') was one of them"
+(MARGINALE OF 1862).]
+
+"They had now yoked the horses. His Majesty took a very tender
+leave of old General von Ziethen, waved an adieu to those about,
+and drove on. Although his Majesty at Protzen would not take any
+fruit, yet when once we were out of the village, his Majesty took a
+luncheon from the carriage-pocket for himself and the Herr General
+Graf von Gortz, and, all along, during the drive, ate apricots
+(IMMER PFIRSCHE).
+
+At starting, his Majesty had fancied I was to stop here, and called
+out of the carriage: 'Amtmann, come along with us!'
+
+KING. "'Where is the Beamte of Alt-Ruppin?'
+
+ICH. "'Apparently he must be unwell; otherwise he would have been
+in Protzen at the change of horses there' ["at the VORSPANN:" Yes;
+--and Manor-house, EDELHOF, where old Ziethen waited, was lower
+down the street, and SOONER than the Post-house?]
+
+KING. "'Na, tell me now, don't you really know why that Kleist at
+Protzen took his discharge?' [VOILA!]
+
+ICH. "'No, your Majesty, I really do not.'
+
+KING. "'What village is this before us?'
+
+ICH. "'Manker.'
+
+KING. "'And whose?'
+
+ICH. "'Yours, your Majesty, in the AMT Alt-Ruppin.'
+
+KING (looking round on the harvest-fields). "'Here you, now:
+how are you content with the harvest?'
+
+ICH. "'Very well, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Very well? And to me they said, Very ill!'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, the winter-crop was somewhat frost-nipt;
+but the summer-crop in return is so abundant it will richly make up
+for the winter-crop.' His Majesty now looked round upon the fields,
+shock standing upon shock.
+
+KING. "'It is a good harvest, you are right; shock stands close by
+shock here!'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty; and the people here make STEIGS (mounts)
+of them too.'
+
+KING. "'Steigs, what is that?'
+
+ICH. "'That is 20 sheaves piled all together.'
+
+KING. "'Oh, it is indisputably a good harvest. But tell me, though,
+why did Kleist of Protzen take his discharge?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, I do not know. I suppose he was obliged to
+take his father's estates in hand: no other cause do I know of.'
+
+KING. "'What's the name of this village we are coming to?'
+
+ICH. "'Garz.'
+
+KING. "'To whom belongs it?'
+
+ICH. "'To the Kriegsrath von Quast.'
+
+KING. "'To WHOM belongs it?'
+
+ICH. "'To Kriegsrath von Quast.'
+
+KING. "'EY WAS [pooh, pooh]! I know nothing of Kriegsraths!--To
+whom does the Estate belong?'
+
+ICH. "'To Herr von Quast.' Friedrich had the greatest contempt for
+Kriegsraths, and indeed for most other RATHS or titular shams,
+labelled boxes with nothing in the inside: on a horrible winter-
+morning (sleet, thunder, &c.), marching off hours before sunrise,
+he has been heard to say, 'Would one were a Kriegsrath!
+
+KING. "'Na, that is the right answer.'
+
+"His Majesty now arrived at Garz. The changing of the horses was
+managed by Herr von Luderitz of Nackeln, as first Deputy of the
+Ruppin Circle. He had his hat on, and a white feather in it.
+When the yoking was completed, our journey proceeded again.
+
+KING. "'To whom belongs this estate on the left here?'
+
+ICH. "'To Herr van Luderitz; it is called Nackeln.'
+
+KING. "'What Luderitz is that?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, he that was in Garz while the horses
+were changing.'
+
+KING. "'Ha, ha, the Herr with the white feather!--Do you sow
+wheat too?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'How much have you sown?'
+
+ICH. "'Three WISPELS 12 SCHEFFELS,' unknown measures!
+
+KING. "'How much did your predecessor use to sow?'
+
+ICH. "'Four scheffels.'
+
+KING. "'How has it come that you sow so much more than he?'
+
+ICH. "'As I have already had the honor to tell your Majesty that I
+keep seventy head of cows more than he, I have of course more
+manure for my ground, and so put it in a better case for
+bearing wheat.'
+
+KING. "'But why do you grow no hemp?'
+
+ICH. "'It would not answer here. In a cold climate it would answer
+better. Our sailors can buy Russian hemp in Lubeck cheaper, and of
+better quality than I could grow here.'
+
+KING. "'What do you sow, then, where you used to have hemp?'
+
+ICH. "'Wheat!'
+
+KING. "'Why do you sow no Farbekraut, ["DYE-HERB:" commonly called
+"FARBERROTHE;" yields a coarse RED, on decoction of the twigs and
+branches; from its roots the finer red called "KRAPP" (in French
+GARANCE) is got.] no Krapp?'
+
+ICH. "'It will not prosper; the ground is n't good enough.'
+
+KING. "'That is people's talk: you should have made the trial.'
+
+ICH. "'I did make the trial; but it failed; and as Beamte I cannot
+make many trials; for, let them fail or not, the rent must
+be paid.'
+
+KING. "'What do you sow, then, where you would have put Farbekraut?'
+
+ICH. "'Wheat.'
+
+KING. "'Na! Then stand by wheat!--Your tenants are in good case,
+I suppose?'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty. I can show by the Register of Hypothecks
+(HYPOTHEKENBUCH) that they have about 50 thousand thalers of
+capital among them.'
+
+KING. "'That is good.'
+
+ICH. "'Three years ago a tenant died who had 11,000 thalers,' say
+2,000 pounds, 'in the Bank.'
+
+KING. "'How much?'
+
+ICH. "'Eleven thousand thalers.'
+
+KING. "'Keep them so always!'
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty, it is very good that the tenant have
+money; but he becomes mutinous too, as the tenants hereabouts do,
+who have seven times over complained to your Majesty against me, to
+get rid of the HOFDIENST,' stated work due from them.
+
+KING. "'They will have had some cause too!'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty will graciously pardon: there was an
+investigation gone into, and it was found that I had not oppressed
+the tenants, but had always gone upon my right, and merely held
+them to do their duty. Nevertheless the matter stood as it was:
+the tenants are not punished; your Majesty puts always the tenants
+in the right, the poor Beamte is always in the wrong!'
+
+KING. "'Ja: that you, my son, will contrive to get justice, you, I
+cannot but believe! You will send your Departmentsrath [Judge of
+these affairs] such pretty gifts of butter, capons, poults!'
+
+ICH. "'No, your Majesty, we cannot. Corn brings no price: if one
+did not turn a penny with other things, how could one raise the
+rent at all?'
+
+KING. "'Where do you send your butter, capons and poults (PUTER)
+for sale?'
+
+ICH. "'To Berlin.'
+
+KING. "'Why not to Ruppin?'
+
+ICH. "'Most of the Ruppin people keep cows, as many as are needed
+for their own uses. The soldier eats nothing but old [salt] butter,
+he cannot buy fresh.'
+
+KING. "'What do you get for your butter in Berlin?'
+
+ICH. "'Four groschen the pound; now the soldier at Ruppin buys his
+salt butter at two.'
+
+KING. "'But your capons and poults, you could bring these
+to Ruppin?'
+
+ICH. "'In the regiment there are just four Staff-Officers; they can
+use but little: the burghers don't live delicately; they thank God
+when they can get a bit of pork or bacon.'
+
+KING. "'Yes, there you are in the right! The Berliners, again, like
+to eat some dainty article.--Na! do what you will with the tenants
+[UNTERTHANEN, not quite ADSCRIPTS at that time on the Royal
+Demesnes, but tied to many services, and by many shackles, from
+which Friedrich all his days was gradually delivering them];
+only don't oppress them.'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, that would never be my notion, nor any
+reasonable Beamte's.'
+
+KING. "'Tell me, then, where does Stollen lie?'
+
+ICH. "'Stollen your Majesty cannot see just here. Those big hills
+there on the left are the hills at Stollen; there your Majesty will
+have a view of all the Colonies.'
+
+KING. "'So? That is well. Then ride you with us thither.'
+
+"Now his Majesty came upon a quantity of peasants who were mowing
+rye; they had formed themselves into two rows, were wiping their
+scythes, and so let his Majesty drive through them.
+
+KING. "'What the Devil, these people will be wanting money from me,
+I suppose?'
+
+ICH. "'Oh no, your Majesty! They are full of joy that you are so
+gracious as to visit this district.'
+
+KING. "'I'll give them nothing, though.--What village is that,
+there ahead of us?'
+
+ICH. "'Barsekow.'
+
+KING. "'To whom belongs it?'
+
+ICH. "'To Herr von Mitschepfal.'
+
+KING. "'What Mitschepfal is that?'
+
+ICH. "'He was Major in the regiment which your Majesty had when
+Crown-Prince.' [Supra, vii. 403.]
+
+KING. "'Mein Gott! Is he still alive?'
+
+ICH. "'No, HE is dead; his daughter has the estate.'
+
+"We now came into the village of Barsekow, where the Manor-house is
+in ruins.
+
+KING. "'Hear! Is that the manor-house (EDELHOF)?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja.'
+
+KING. "'That does look miserable.' Here Mitschepfal's daughter, who
+has married a baronial Herr von Kriegsheim from Mecklenburg, came
+forward while the horses were changing. Kriegsheim came on account
+of her into this country: the King has given them a Colony of 200
+MORGEN (acres).  Coming to the carriage, Frau von Kriegsheim 
+handed some fruit to his Majesty. His Majesty declined with thanks;
+asked, who her father was, when he died, &c. On a sudden, she
+presented her husband; began to thank for the 200 MORGEN;
+mounted on the coach-step; wished to kiss, if not his Majesty's
+hand, at least his coat. His Majesty shifted quite to the other
+side of the carriage, and cried"--good old Fritz!--"'Let be, my
+daughter, let be! It is all well!--Amtmann, let us get along (MACHT
+DASS WIR FORTKOMMEN)!'
+
+KING. "'Hear now: these people are not prospering here?'
+
+ICH. "'Far from it, your Majesty; they are in the greatest poverty.'
+
+KING. "'That is bad.--Tell me though; there lived a Landrath here
+before: he had a quantity of children: can't you recollect
+his name?'
+
+ICH. "'That will have been the Landrath von Gorgas of Genser.'
+
+KING. "'Ja, ja, that was he. Is he dead now?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty. He died in 1771: and it was very singular;
+in one fortnight he, his wife and four sons all died. The other
+four that were left had all the same sickness too, which was a hot
+fever; and though the sons, being in the Army, were in different
+garrisons, and no brother had visited the other, they all got the
+same illness, and came out of it with merely their life left.'
+
+KING. "'That was a desperate affair (VERZWEIFELTER UMSTAND
+GEWESEN)! Where are the four sons that are still in life?'
+
+ICH. "'One is in the Ziethen Hussars, one in the Gens-d'-Armes,
+another was in the regiment Prinz Ferdinand, and lives on the
+Estate Dersau. The fourth is son-in-law of Herr General von
+Ziethen. He was lieutenant in the Ziethen Regiment; but in the last
+war (POTATO-WAR, 1778), on account of his ill health, your Majesty
+gave him his discharge; and he now lives in Genser.'
+
+KING. "'So? That is one of the Gorgases, then!--Are you still
+making experiments with the foreign kinds of corn?'
+
+ICH. "'O ja; this year I have sown Spanish barley. But it will not
+rightly take hold; I must give it up again. However, the Holstein
+STOOLing-rye (STAUDENROGGEN) has answered very well.'
+
+KING. "'What kind of rye is that?'
+
+ICH. "'It grows in Holstein in the Low Grounds (NIEDERUNG).
+Never below the 10th grain [10 reaped for 1 sown] have I yet
+had it.'
+
+KING. "'Nu, nu [Ho, ho], surely not the 10th grain all at once!'
+
+ICH. "'That is not much. Please your Majesty to ask the Herr
+General von Gortz [who has not spoken a syllable all day]; he knows
+this is not reckoned much in Holstein:'--(the General Graf von
+Gortz I first had the honor to make acquaintance with in Holstein).
+
+"They now talked, for a while, of the rye, in the carriage
+together. Presently his Majesty called to me from the carriage,
+'Na, stand by the Holstein STAUDEN-rye, then; and give some to the
+tenants too.'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'But give me some idea: what kind of appearance had the Luch
+before it was drained?'
+
+ICH. "'It was mere high rough masses of hillocks (HULLEN);
+between them the water settled, and had no flow. In the driest
+years we couldn't cart the hay out, but had to put it up in big
+ricks. Only in winter, when the frost was sharp, could we get it
+home. But now we have cut away the hillocks; and the trenches that
+your Majesty got made for us take the water off. And now the Luch
+is as dry as your Majesty sees, and we can carry out our hay when
+we please.'
+
+KING. "'That is well. Have your tenants, too, more cattle
+than formerly?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja!'
+
+KING. "'How many more?'
+
+ICH. "'Many have one cow, many two, according as their
+means admit.'
+
+KING. "'But how many more have they in all? About how many,
+that is?'
+
+ICH. "'About 150 head.'
+
+"His Majesty must lately have asked the Herr General von Gortz, how
+I came to know him,--as I told his Majesty to ask General von Gortz
+about the Holstein rye;--and presumably the Herr General must have
+answered, what was the fact, That he had first known me in
+Holstein, where I dealt in horses, and that I had been at Potsdam
+with horses. Suddenly his Majesty said: 'Hear! I know you are fond
+of horses. But give up that, and prefer cows; you will find your
+account better there.'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, I no longer deal in horses. I merely rear a
+few foals every year.'
+
+KING. "'Rear calves instead; that will be better.'
+
+ICH. "'Oh, your Majesty, if one takes pains with it, there is no
+loss in breeding horses. I know a man who got, two years ago, 1,000
+thalers for a stallion of his raising.'
+
+KING. "'He must have been a fool that gave it.'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, he was a Mecklenburg nobleman.'
+
+KING. "'But nevertheless a fool.'
+
+"We now came upon the territory of the Amt Neustadt; and here the
+Amtsrath Klausius, who has the Amt in farm, was in waiting on the
+boundary, and let his Majesty drive past. But as I began to get
+tired of the speaking, and his Majesty went on always asking about
+villages, which stand hereabouts in great quantity, and I had
+always to name the owner, and say what sons he had in the Army,--I
+brought up Herr Amtsrath Klausius to the carriage, and said:--
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, this is the Amtsrath Klausius, of the Amt
+Neustadt, in whose jurisdiction the Colonies are.'
+
+KING. "'So, so! that is very good (DAS IST MIR LIEB).
+Bring him up.'
+
+KING. "'What's your name?' (from this point the King spoke mostly
+with Amtsrath Klausius, and I only wrote down what I heard).
+
+KL. "'Klausius.'
+
+KING. "'Klau-si-us. Na, have you many cattle here on the Colonies?'
+
+KL. "'1,887 head of cows, your Majesty. There would have been above
+3,000, had it not been for the murrain that was here.'
+
+KING. "'Do the people too increase well? Are there jolly children?'
+
+KL. "'O ja, your Majesty; there are now 1,576 souls upon
+the Colonies.'
+
+KING. "'Are you married too?'
+
+KL. "'Ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'And have you children?'
+
+KL. "'Step-children, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Why not of your own?'
+
+KL. "'Don't know that, your Majesty; as it happens.'
+
+KING. "'Hear: Is it far to the Mecklenburg border, here where
+we are?'
+
+KL. "'Only a short mile [5 miles English]. But there are some
+villages scattered still within the boundary which belong to
+Brandenburg. There are Stetzebart, Rosso and so on.'
+
+KING. "'Ja, ja, I know them. But I should not have thought we were
+so near upon the Mecklenburg country.' [TO THE HERR AMTSRATH
+KLAUSIUS] 'Where were you born?'
+
+KL. "'At Neustadt on the Dosse.'
+
+KING. "'What was your father?'
+
+KL. "'Clergyman.'
+
+KING. "'Are they good people, these Colonists? The first generation
+of them is n't usually good for much.'
+
+KL. "'They are getting on, better or worse.'
+
+KING. "'Do they manage their husbandry well?'
+
+KL. "'O ja, your Majesty. His Excellency the Minister von Derschau,
+too, has given me a Colony of 75 acres, to show the other Colonists
+a good example in management.'
+
+KING (smiling). "'Ha, ha! good example! But tell me, I see no wood
+here: where do the Colonists get their timber?'
+
+KL. "'From the Ruppin district.'
+
+KING. "'How far is that?'
+
+KL. "'3 miles' [15 English].
+
+KING. "'Well, that's a great way . It should have been contrived
+that they could have it nearer hand.' [TO ME] 'What man is that to
+the right there?'
+
+ICH. "'Bauinspector [Buildings-Inspector] Menzelius, who has charge
+of the buildings in these parts.'
+
+KING. "'Am I in Rome? They are mere Latin names!--Why is that
+hedged in so high?'
+
+ICH. "'That is the mule-stud.'
+
+KING. "'What is the name of this Colony?'
+
+ICH. "'Klausiushof.'
+
+KL. "'Your Majesty, it should be called Klaushof.'
+
+KING. "'Its name is Klausiushof. What is the other Colony called?'
+
+ICH. "'Brenkenhof.'
+
+KING. "'That is not its name.'
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty, I know it by no other!'
+
+KING. "'Its name is Brenken-hosius-hof!--Are these the Stollen
+hills that lie before us?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Have I to drive through the village?'
+
+ICH. "'It is not indispensable; but the change of horses is there.
+If your Majesty give order, I will ride forward, send the fresh
+horses out of the village, and have them stationed to wait at the
+foot of the hills.'
+
+KING. "'O ja, do so! Take one of my pages with you.'
+
+"I now took measures about the new team of horses, but so arranged
+it, that when his Majesty got upon the hills I was there too.
+At dismounting from his carriage on the hill-top, his Majesty
+demanded a prospect-glass; looked round the whole region, and then
+said: 'Well, in truth, that is beyond my expectation! That is
+beautiful! I must say this to you, all of you that have worked in
+this business, you have behaved like honorable people!'--[TO ME]
+'Tell me now, is the Elbe far from here?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, it is 2 miles off [10 miles]. Yonder is Wurben
+in the Altmark; it lies upon the Elbe.'
+
+KING. "'That cannot be! Give me the glass again.--Ja, ja, it is
+true, though. But what other steeple is that?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, that is Havelberg.'
+
+KING. "'Na, come here, all of you!' (THERE WERE AMTSRATH KLAUSIUS,
+BAUINSPECTOR MENZELIUS AND I.) 'Hear now, the tract of moor here to
+the left must also be reclaimed; and what is to the right too, so
+far as the moor extends. What kind of wood is there on it?'
+
+ICH. "'Alders (ELSEN) and oaks, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Na! the alders you may root out; and the oaks may continue
+standing; the people may sell these, or use them otherwise.
+When once the ground is arable, I reckon upon 300 families for it,
+and 500 head of cows,--ha?'--Nobody answered; at last I began,
+and said:--
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty, perhaps!'
+
+KING. "'Hear now, you may answer me with confidence. There will be
+more or fewer families. I know well enough one cannot, all at once,
+exactly say. I was never there, don't know the ground; otherwise I
+could understand equally with you how many families could be put
+upon it.'
+
+THE BAUINSPECTOR. "'Your Majesty, the LUCH is still subject to
+rights of common from a great many hands.'
+
+KING. "'No matter for that. You must make exchanges, give them an
+equivalent, according as will answer best in the case. I want
+nothing from anybody except at its value.' [TO AMTSRATH KLAUSIUS]
+'Na, hear now, you can write to my Kammer [BOARD, Board-of-Works
+that does NOT sit idle!], what it is that I want reclaimed to the
+plough; the money for it I will give.' [TO ME] 'And you, you go to
+Berlin, and explain to my Geheimer-Rath Michaelis, by word of
+mouth, what it is I want reclaimed.'
+
+"His Majesty now stept into his carriage again [was Gortz sitting
+all the while, still in silence? Or had he perhaps got out at the
+bottom of the hill, and sat down to a contemplative pipe of
+tobacco, the smoke of which, heart-cheering to Gortz, was always
+disagreeable to Friedrich? Nobody knows!]--and drove down the hill;
+there the horses were changed. And now, as his Majesty's order was
+that I should 'attend him to the Stollen hills,' I went up to the
+carriage, and asked:--
+
+ICH. "'Does your Majesty command that I should yet accompany
+farther' ["BEFEHLEN, command," in the plural is polite, "your
+Majesty, that I yet farther shall WITH"]?
+
+KING. "'No, my son; ride, in God's name, home.'--
+
+"The Herr Amtsrath [Klau-si-us] then accompanied his Majesty to
+Rathenow, where he [THEY: His Majesty is plural] lodged in the
+Post-house. At Rathenow, during dinner, his Majesty was uncommonly
+cheerful: he dined with Herr Lieutenant-Colonel von Backhof of the
+Carabineers, and the Herr Lieutenant-Colonel von Backhof himself
+has related that his Majesty said:--
+
+"'My good Von Backhof (MEIN LIEBER VON BACKHOF): if He [you] have
+not for a long time been in the Fehrbellin neighborhood, go
+there.'" Fehrbellin, the Prussian BANNOCKBURN; where the Great
+Elector cut the hitherto invincible Swedes IN TWO, among the DAMS
+and intricate moory quagmires, with a vastly inferior force, nearly
+all of cavalry (led by one DERFLINGER, who in his apprentice time
+had been a TAILOR); beat one end of them all to rags, then galloped
+off and beat the other into ditto; quite taking the conceit out of
+the Swedes, or at least clearing Prussia of them forever and a day:
+a feat much admired by Friedrich: "'Go there,' he says.
+'That region is uncommonly improved [as I saw to-day]! I have not
+for a long time had such a pleasant drive. I decided on this
+journey because I had no REVIEW on hand; and it has given me such
+pleasure that I shall certainly have another by and by.'
+
+"'Tell me now: how did you get on in the last War [KARTOFFEL KRIEG,
+no fighting, only a scramble for proviant and "potatoes"]?
+Most likely ill! You in Saxony too could make nothing out.
+The reason was, we had not men to fight against, but cannons!
+I might have done a thing or two; but I should have sacrificed more
+than the half of my Army, and shed innocent human blood. In that
+case I should have deserved to be taken to the Guard-house door,
+and to have got a sixscore there (EINEN OFFFENTLICHEN PRODUKT)!
+Wars are becoming frightful to carry on.'
+
+"'This was surely touching to hear from the mouth of a great
+Monarch,' said Herr Lieutenant-Colonel von Backhof to me, and tears
+came into that old soldier's eyes." Afterwards his Majesty
+had said:--
+
+"Of the Battle of Fehrbellin I know everything, almost as if I
+myself had been there! While I was Crown-Prince, and lay in Ruppin,
+there was an old townsman, the man was even then very old: he could
+describe the whole Battle, and knew the scene of it extremely well.
+Once I got into a carriage, took my old genius with me, who showed
+me all over the ground, and described everything so distinctly, I
+was much contented with him. As we were coming back, I thought:
+Come, let me have a little fun with the old blade;--so I asked him:
+'Father, don't you know, then, why the two Sovereigns came to
+quarrel with one another?'--'O ja, your Royal HighnessES [from this
+point we have Platt-Deutsch, PRUSSIAN dialect, for the old man's
+speech; barely intelligible, as Scotch is to an ingenious
+Englishman], DAT WILL ICK SE WOHL SEGGEN, I can easily tell you
+that. When our Chorforste [Kurfursts, Great Elector] was young, he
+studied in Utrecht; and there the King of Sweden happened to be
+too. And now the two young lords picked some quarrel, got to
+pulling caps [fell into one another's hair], AND DIT IS NU DE PICKE
+DAVON, and this now was the upshot of it.'--His Majesty spoke this
+in Platt-Deutsch, as here given;--but grew at table so weary that
+he (they) fell asleep." So far Backhof;--and now again Fromme by
+way of finish:--
+
+"Of his Majesty's journey I can give no farther description.
+For though his Majesty spoke and asked many things else; it would
+be difficult to bring them all to paper." And so ends the DAY WITH
+FRIEDRICH THE GREAT; very flat, but I dare say very TRUE:--
+a Daguerrotype of one of his Days.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg Appendix to History of Friedrich II of Prussia
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