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40 turn on such evenings as he chose to come home when he was not working—and when he troubled to explain that he had been let off a little early—together with a certain eager and restless manner—a desire to be out and away from his home at nearly all such moments as he was not in bed or dressing or undressing, puzzled his mother and Asa, also. The hotel! The hotel! He must always hurry off to the hotel, and all that he had to report was that he liked it ever so much, and that he was doing all right, he thought. It was nicer work than working a soda fountain, and he might be making more money pretty soon—he couldn't tell—but as for more than that he either wouldn't or couldn't say.

And all the time the Griffiths—father and mother—were feeling that because of the affair in connection with Esta, they should really be moving away from Kansas City—should go to Denver. And now more than ever, Clyde was insisting that he did not want to leave Kansas City. They might go, but he had a pretty good job now and wanted to stick to it. And if they left, he could get a room somewhere—and would be all right—a thought which did not appeal to them at all.

But in the meantime what an enormous change in Clyde's life. Beginning with that first evening, when at 5:45, he appeared before Mr. Whipple, his immediate superior, and was approved—not only because of the fit of his new uniform, but for his general appearance—the world for him had changed entirely. Lined up with seven others in the servants' hall, immediately behind the general offices in the lobby, and inspected by Mr. Whipple, the squad of eight marched at the stroke of six through a door that gave into the lobby on the other side of the staircase from where stood Mr. Whipple's desk, then about and in front of the general registration office to the long bench on the other side. A Mr. Barnes, who alternated with Mr. Whipple, then took charge of the assistant captain's desk, and the boys seated themselves—Clyde at the foot—only to be called swiftly and in turn to perform this, that and the other service—while the relieved squad of Mr. Whipple was led away into the rear servants' hall as before, where they disbanded.

“Cling!”

The bell on the room clerk's desk had sounded and the first boy was going.

“Cling!” It sounded again and a second boy leaped to his feet.

“Front!”—“Center door!” called Mr. Barnes, and a third boy was skidding down the long marble floor toward that en-

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 and the villany of Sir John Belmont,—as once, what her daughter is now, the best beloved of my heart: and her memory, so long as my own holds, I shall love, mourn and honour! On the fatal day that her gentle soul left its mansion, and not many hours ere she ceased to breathe, I solemnly plighted my faith, ''That her child. if it lived, should know no father, but myself, or her acknowledged husband''."

You cannot, Madam, suppose that I found much difficulty in adhering to this promise, and forbearing to make any claim upon Sir John Belmont. Could I feel an affection the most paternal for this poor sufferer, and not abominate her destroyer? Could I wish to deliver to him, who had so basely betrayed the mother, the helpless and innocent offspring, who, born in so much sorrow, seemed entitled to all the compassionate tenderness of pity?

For many years, the name alone of that man, accidentally spoken in my hearing, almost divested me of my christianity, and scarce could I forbear to execrate him. Yet I sought not, neither did I desire, to deprive him of his child, had he, with any appearance of contrition, or, indeed, of humanity, endeavoured to become less unworthy such a blessing;—but he is a stranger to all parental feelings, and has,

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 with a savage insensibility, forborne to enquire even into the existence of this sweet orphan, though the situation of his injured wife was but too well known to him.

You wish to be acquainted with my intentions.—I must acknowledge they were such as I now perceive would not be honoured with your Ladyship's approbation: for though I have sometimes thought of presenting Evelina to her father, and demanding the justice which is her due, yet, at other times, I have both disdained and feared the application; disdained lest it should be refused, and feared, lest it should be accepted!

Lady Belmont, who was firmly persuaded of her approaching dissolution, frequently and earnestly besought me, that if her infant was a female, I would not abandon her to the direction of a man so wholly unfit to take the charge of her education; but, should she be importunately demanded, that I would retire with her abroad, and carefully conceal her from Sir John, till some apparent change in his sentiments and conduct should announce him less improper for such a trust. And often would she say, "Should the poor babe have any feelings correspondent with its mother's, it will have no want while under your protection." Alas! she had no sooner quitted it herself,

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VI

Other divergences from the "broad" transcription to suit special circumstances will readily suggest themselves to teachers. Generally speaking, however, the usual broad form of 'transcription, taken in connexion with the rules

given in Appendix A transcription is used

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which have to be learned whatever form of answer all requirements. One detail of the transcription may he referred to here. The question whether to use the sign e or the sign £ to represent the vowel in get, red, etc.,

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rules

,

will be found to

has been carefully considered. The matter

is

one of considerable

difficulty

(l) owing to the fact that several varieties of pronunciation exist, (2) owing to the fact that many speakers use different varieties in different words (e. g.

a "closer" one in get and an "opener" one in %cdt), and (3) owing to the sound is probably just about intermediate between "cardinal" e and "cardinal" £. After much hesitation the sign e has been adopted in this book, the chief reason in favour of this mode of representation being that it helps better to counteract the common foreign mistake of using too open a variety. It should, however, be made clear that there fact that the "average"

is

not

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much

between the two modes of representation in fact cases which it would be on the whole more helpful to tran-

to choose

easily arise in

scribe with C (e. g. in

refemng

to English pronunciation during the teaching

of French pronunciation to English pupils).

STYLES OF PRONUNCIATION The pronunciation represented

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essentially that of Southern

Englishmen

who have been educated at the great public boarding schools (see § 24). Where more than one form is admissible, that form is chosen which is shown by experience to give the best results with foreigners. Thus the word extraordmary admits of a number of pronunciations. The form generally aimed at by foreigners is ekstra'd.'dinari, but they usually give such undue emphasis and incorrect values to the unstressed vowels that the wofd sounds utterly wrong. But when a foreigner is taught the form iks'traidnri, which is equally correct in ordinary speech, he soon succeeds in making the word sound English, for the simple reason that there is not so much opportunity him to go wrong. The latter form is therefore given in this book. It is sometimes stated by English teachers that such forms as iks'tra: (Inri, not being generally used in the style of speaking adopted in recitation, etc., are not suitable forms for to teach to foreigners. I am unable to share this for

opinion for two reasons, in addition to that given above. Firstly, the vast majority of people who study the pronunciation of a foreign language do so not with a view to being able to recite in that language, but because they want to be able to talk like ordinary educated people. And secondly,

who do wish to learn to recite cannot do better than start by learning to talk. The modifications of pronunciation necessary in the elocucutionary style of speaking require special study, and cannot be properly

those few

understood without a thorough knowledge of the conversational style of speech. I take this opportunity of reminding English-speaking readers that it is not the object of this book to set up this particular style of pronunciation as a standard. Its object is to record accurately one form of English pronunciation, and to give to foreigners methods of acquiring that form if they


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 than she was plunged into a gulph of misery, that swallowed up her peace, reputation, and life.

During the childhood of Evelina, I suggested a thousand plans for the security of her birth-right;—but I as many times rejected them. I was in a perpetual conflict, between the desire that she should have justice done her, and the apprehension that, while I improved her fortune, I should endanger her mind. However, as her character began to be formed, and her disposition to be displayed, my perplexity abated; the road before me seemed less thorny and intricate, and I thought I could perceive the right path from the wrong: for, when I observed the artless openness, the ingenuous simplicity of her nature; when I saw that her guileless and innocent soul fancied all the world to be pure and disinterested as herself, and that her heart was open to every impression with which love, pity, or art might assail it;—then did I flatter myself, that to follow my own inclination, and to secure her welfare, was the same thing; since, to expose her to the snares and dangers inevitably encircling a house of which the master is dissipated and unprincipled, without the guidance of a mother, or any prudent and sensible female, seemed to me no less than suffering her to stumble into

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 some dreadful pit, when the sun is in its meridian. My plan, therefore, was not merely to educate and to cherish her as my own, but to adopt her the heiress of my small fortune, and to bestow her upon some worthy man, with whom she might spend her days in tranquility, chearfulness, and good-humour, untainted by vice, folly, or ambition.

So much for the time past. Such have been the motives by which I have been governed; and I hope they will be allowed not merely to account for, but also to justify, the conduct which has resulted from them. It now remains to speak of the time to come.

And here, indeed, I am sensible of difficulties which I almost despair of surmounting according to my wishes. I pay the highest deference to your Ladyship's opinion, which it is extremely painful to me not to concur with; yet I am so well acquainted with your goodness, that I presume to hope it would not be absolutely impossible for me to offer such arguments as might lead you to think with me, that this young creature's chance of happiness seems less doubtful in retirement, than it would be in the gay and dissipated world: but why should I perplex your Ladyship with reasoning that can turn to so little ac-

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 count? for, alas! what arguments, what persuasions can I make use of, with any prospect of success, to such a woman as Madame Duval? Her character, and the violence of her disposition, intimidate me from making the attempt: she is too ignorant for instruction, too obstinate for entreaty, and too weak for reason.

I will not, therefore, enter into a contest from which I have nothing to expect but altercation and impertinence. As soon would I discuss the effect of sound with the deaf, or the nature of colours with the blind, as aim at illuminating with conviction a mind so warped by prejudice, so much the slave of unruly and illiberal passions. Unused as she is to controul, persuasion would but harden, and opposition incense her. I yield, therefore, to the necessity which compels my reluctant acquiescence, and shall now turn all my thoughts upon considering of such methods for the conducting this enterprize, as may be most conducive to the happiness of my child, and least liable to wound her sensibility.

The law-suit, therefore, I wholly and absolutely disapprove.

Will you, my dear Madam, forgive the freedom of an old man, if I own myself greatly surprised, that you could, even for a moment, listen to a plan so violent,

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 so public, so totally repugnant to all female delicacy? I am satisfied your Ladyship has not weighed this project. There was a time, indeed, when, to assert the innocence of Lady Belmont, and to blazon to the world the wrongs, not guilt, by which she suffered, I proposed, nay attempted, a similar plan: but then, all assistance and encouragement was denied. How cruel to the remembrance I bear of her woes, is this tardy resentment of Madame Duval! She was deaf to the voice of Nature, though she has hearkened to that of Ambition.

Never can I consent to have this dear and timid girl brought forward to the notice of the world by such a method; a method, which will subject her to all the impertinence of curiosity, the sneers of conjecture, and the stings of ridicule. And for what?—the attainment of wealth, which she does not want, and the gratification of vanity, which she does not feel.—A child to appear against a father!—no, Madam, old and infirm as I am, I would even yet sooner convey her myself to some remote part of the world, though I were sure of dying in the expedition.

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 become a burthen to her, and her fair fame, which she had early been taught to prize above all other things, had received a mortal wound: therefore, to clear her own honour, and to secure from blemish the birth of her child, was all the good which Fortune had reserved herself the power of bestowing. But even this last consolation was with-held from her!

Let milder measures be adopted; and—since it must be so,—let application be made to Sir John Belmont; but as to a law-suit, I hope, upon this subject, never more to hear it mentioned.

With Madame Duval, all pleas of delicacy would be ineffectual; her scheme must be opposed by arguments better suited to her understanding. I will not, therefore, talk of its impropriety, but endeavour to prove its inutility. Have the goodness, then, to tell her, that her own intentions would be frustrated by her plan, since, should the law-suit be commenced, and even should the cause be gained, Sir John Belmont would still have it in his power, and, if irritated, no doubt in his inclination, to cut off her grand-daughter with a shilling.

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 trance to seize the bags of an incoming guest, whose white whiskers and youthful, bright tweed suit were visible to Clyde's uninitiated eyes a hundred feet away. A mysterious and yet sacred vision—a tip!

“Front!” It was Mr. Barnes calling again. “See what 913 wants—ice-water, I guess.” And a fourth boy was gone.

Clyde, steadily moving up along the bench and adjoining Hegglund, who had been detailed to instruct him a little, was all eyes and ears and nerves. He was so tense that he could hardly breathe, and fidgeted and jerked until finally Hegglund exclaimed: “Now, don't git excited. Just hold your horses, will yuh? You'll be all right. You're jist like I was when I begun—all noives. But dat ain't de way. Easy's what you gotta be aroun' here. An' you wants to look as dough you wasn't seein' nobody nowhere—just lookin' to what ya got before ya.”

“Front!” Mr. Barnes again. Clyde was scarcely able to keep his mind on what Hegglund was saying. “115 wants some writing paper and pens.” A fifth boy had gone.

“Where do you get paper and pens if they want em?” He pleaded of his instructor, as one who was about to die might plead.

“Off'n de key desk, I toldja. He's to de left over dere. He'll give 'em to ya. An' you gits ice-water in de hall we lined up in just a minute ago—at dat end over dere, see—you'll see a little door. You gotta give dat guy in dere a dime oncet in a while or he'll get sore.”

“Cling!” The room clerk's bell. A sixth boy had gone without a word to supply some order in that direction.

“And now remember,” continued Hegglund, seeing that he himself was next, and cautioning him for the last time, “if dey wants drinks of any kind, you get 'em in de grill over dere off'n de dining-room. An' be sure and git de names of de drinks straight or dey'll git sore. An' if it's a room you're showing, pull de shades down to-night and turn on de lights. An' if it's anyt'ing from de dinin'-room you gotta see de head-waiter—he gets de tip, see.”

“Front!” He was up and gone.

And Clyde was number one. And number four was already seating himself again by his side—but looking shrewdly around to see if anybody was wanted anywhere.

“Front!” It was Mr. Barnes. Clyde was up and before him, grateful that it was no one coming in with bags, but worried for fear it might be something he would not understand or could not do quickly.

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 Sir John, will make her interference merely productive of debates and ill-will. Neither would I have Evelina appear till summoned. And as to myself, I must wholly decline acting, though I will, with unwearied zeal, devote all my thoughts to giving counsel: but, in truth, I have neither inclination nor spirits adequate to engaging personally with this man.

My opinion is, that he would pay more respect to a letter from your Ladyship upon this subject, than from any other person. I therefore advise and hope, that you will yourself take the trouble of writing to him, in order to open the affair. When he shall be inclined to see Evelina, I have for him a posthumous letter, which his much-injured lady left to be presented to him, if ever such a meeting should take place.

The views of the Branghtons, in suggesting this scheme, are obviously interested; they hope, by securing to Evelina the fortune of her father, to induce Madame Duval to settle her own upon themselves. In this, however, they would probably be mistaken, for little minds have ever a propensity to bestow their wealth upon those who are already in affluence, and, therefore, the less her grand-child requires her assistance, the more gladly she will give it.

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 I have but one thing more to add, from which, however, I can by no means recede: my word so solemnly given to Lady Belmont, that her child should never be owned but with herself, must be inviolably adhered to.

I am, dear Madam, with great respect, Your Ladyship's most obedient servant,.

sincerely do I sympathise in the uneasiness and concern which my beloved Evelina has so much reason to feel! The cruel scheme in agitation is equally repugnant to my judgment and my inclination,—yet to oppose it, seems impracticable. To follow the dictates of my own heart, I should instantly recall you to myself, and never more consent to your being separated from me; but the manners and opinion of the world demand a different conduct. Hope, however, for the best, and

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 be satisfied you shall meet with no indignity; if you are not received into your own family as you ought to be, and with the distinction that is your due, you shall leave it for ever; and, once again restored to my protection, secure your own tranquillity, and make, as you have hitherto done, all the happiness of my life!

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die is thrown, and I attend the event in trembling! Lady Howard has written to Paris, and sent her letter to town, to be forwarded in the ambassador's packet, and in less than a fortnight, therefore, she expects an answer. O Sir, with what anxious impatience shall I wait its arrival! upon it seems to depend the fate of my future life. My solicitude is so great, and my suspence so painful, that I cannot rest a moment in peace, or turn my thoughts into any other channel.

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42 “See what 882 wants.” Clyde was off toward one of the two elevators marked, “employees,” the proper one to use, he thought, because he had been out from one of the fast passenger elevators cautioned him as to his mistake.

“Goin' to a room?” he called. “Use the guest elevators. Them's for the servants or anybody with bundles.”

Clyde hastened to cover his mistake. “Eight,” he called. There being no one else on the elevator with them, the negro elevator boy in charge of the car saluted him at once.

“You'se new, ain't you? I ain't seen you around here befo'.”

“Yes, I just came on,” replied Clyde.

“Well, you won't hate it here,” commented this youth in the most friendly way. “No one hates this house, I'll say. Eight did you say?” He stopped the car and Clyde stepped out. He was too nervous to think to ask the direction and now began looking at room numbers, only to decide after a moment that he was in the wrong corridor. The soft brown carpet under his feet; the soft, cream-tinted walls; the snow-white bowl lights set in the ceiling—all seemed to him parts of a perfection and a social superiority which was almost unbelievable—so remote from all that he had ever known.

And finally, finding 882, he knocked timidly and was greeted after a moment by a segment of a very stout and vigorous body in a blue and white striped union suit and a related segment of a round and florid head in which was set one eye and some wrinkles to one side of it.

“Here's a dollar bill, son,” said the eye seemingly—and now a hand appeared holding a paper dollar. It was fat and red. “You go out to a haberdasher's and get me a pair of garters—Boston Garters—silk—and hurry back.”

“Yes, sir,” replied Clyde, and took the dollar. The door closed and he found himself hustling along the hall toward the elevator, wondering what a haberdasher's was. As old as he was—seventeen—the name was new to him. He had never even heard it before, or noticed it at least. If the man had said a “gents' furnishing store,” he would have understood at once, but now here he was told to go to a haberdasher's and he did not know what it was. A cold sweat burst out upon his forehead. His knees trembled. The devil! What would he do now? Could he ask any one, even Hegglund, and not seem

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 plan was ever proposed: methinks it cannot end to my satisfaction; for either I must be torn from the arms of my more than father,—or I must have the misery of being finally convinced, that I am cruelly rejected by him who has the natural claim to that dear title; a title, which to write, mention, or think of, fills my whole soul with filial tenderness.

The subject is discussed here eternally. Captain Mirvan and Madame Duval, as usual, quarrel whenever it is started: but I am so wholly engrossed by my own reflections, that I cannot even listen to them. My imagination changes the scene perpetually at one moment, I am embraced by a kind and relenting parent, who takes me to that heart from which I have hitherto been banished, and supplicates, through me, peace and forgiveness from the ashes of my mother!—at another, he regards me with detestation, considers me as the living image of an injured faint, and repulses me with horror!—But I will not afflict you with the melancholy phantasms of my brain. I will endeavour to compose my mind to a more tranquil state, and forbear to write again, till I have, in some measure, succeeded.

May Heaven bless you, my dearest Sir!

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 children; and in righteousness shalt thou be built up." And yet again does he say the same thing: "Behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and my people [a joy]; for the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. Also there shall not be there any immature [one], nor an old man who does not fulfil his time: for the youth shall be of a hundred years; and the sinner shall die a hundred years old, yet shall be accursed. And they shall build houses, and inhabit them themselves; and shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them themselves, and shall drink wine. And they shall not build, and others inhabit; neither shall they prepare the vineyard, and others eat. For as the days of the tree of life shall be the days of the people in thee; for the works of their hands shall endure."

1. If, however, any shall endeavour to allegorize [prophecies] of this kind, they shall not be found consistent with themselves in all points, and shall be confuted by the teaching of the very expressions [in question]. For example: "When the cities" of the Gentiles "shall be desolate, so that they be not inhabited, and the houses so that there shall be no men in them, and the land shall be left desolate." "For, behold," says Isaiah, "the day of the Lord cometh past remedy, full of fury and wrath, to lay waste the city of the earth, and to root sinners out of it." And again he says, "Let him be taken away, that he behold not the glory of God." And when these things are done, he says, "God will remove men far away, and those that are left shall multiply


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 All the man wanted a pair of silk Boston garters. Where did one get silk Boston garters—at a store, of course, a place where they sold things for men. Certainly. A gents' furnishing store. He would run out to a store. And on the way down, noting another friendly negro in charge, he asked: “Do you know if there's a gents' furnishing store anywhere around here?”

“One in the building, captain, right outside the south lobby,” replied the negro, and Clyde hurried there, greatly relieved. Yet he felt odd and strange in his close-fitting uniform and his peculiar hat. All the time he was troubled by the notion that his small round, tight-fitting hat might fall off. And he kept pressing it furtively and yet firmly down. And bustling into the haberdasher's, which was blazing with lights outside, he exclaimed, “I want to get a pair of Boston silk garters.”

“All right, son, here you are,” replied a sleek, short man with bright, bald head, pink face and gold-rimmed glasses. “For some one in the hotel, I presume? Well, we'll make that seventy-five cents, and here's a dime for you,” he remarked as he wrapped up the package and dropped the dollar in the cash register. “I always like to do the right thing by you boys in there because I know you come to me whenever you can.”

Clyde took the dime and the package, not knowing quite what to think. The garters must be seventy-five cents—he said so. Hence only twenty-five cents need to be returned to the man. Then the dime was his. And now, maybe—would the man really give him another tip?

He hurried back into the hotel and up to the elevators. The strains of a string orchestra somewhere were filling the lobby with delightful sounds. People were moving here and there—so well-dressed, so much at ease, so very different from most of the people in the streets or anywhere, as he saw it.

An elevator door flew open. Various guests entered. Then Clyde and another bell-boy who gave him an interested glance. At the sixth floor the boy departed. At the eighth Clyde and an old lady stepped forth. He hurried to the door of his guest and tapped. The man opened it, somewhat more fully dressed than before. He had on a pair of trousers and was shaving.

“Back, eh,” he called.

“Yes, sir,” replied Clyde, handing him the package and change. “He said it was seventy-five cents.”

“He's a damned robber, but you can keep the change, just the same,” he replied, handing him the quarter and closing the door. Clyde stood there, quite spellbound for the fraction of a second. “Thirty-five cents”—he thought—“thirty-five cents.”

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180 their health, yet the zeal of God's house thus ate them up, and they esteemed the words of Christ more than their necessary food. We think three hours too much to attend upon public ordinances; but these people stayed together three days, and yet snuffed not at it, nor said, Behold, what a weariness is it! Observe, With what tenderness Christ spake of it; I have compassion on them. It had become them to have compassion on him, who took so much pains with them for three days together, and was so indefatigable in teaching and healing; so much virtue had gone out of him, and yet for aught that appears, he was fasting too; but he prevented them with his compassion. Note, Our Lord Jesus keeps an account how long his followers continue their attendance on him, and takes notice of the difficulty they sustain in it; (Rev. 2. 2.) I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience; and it shall in no wise lose its reward.

Now the exigence the people were reduced to serves to magnify, [1.] The mercy of their supply: he fed them when they were hungry; and then food was doubly welcome. He treated them as he did Israel of old; he suffered them to hunger, and then fed them; (Deut. 8. 3.) for that is sweet to the hungry soul, which the full soul loathes. [2.] The miracle of their supply: having been so long fasting, their appetites were the more craving. If two hungry meals make the third a glutton, what would three hungry days do? And yet they did all eat and were filled. Note, There are mercy and grace enough with Christ, to give the most earnest and enlarged desire an abundant satisfaction; ''Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. He replenisheth even the hungry soul''.

2.(2.) [sic] The care of our master concerning them; I will not send them away fasting, lest they should faint by the way; which would be a discredit to Christ and his family, and a discouragement both to them and to others. Note, It is the unhappiness of our present state, that when our souls are in some measure elevated and enlarged, our bodies cannot keep pace with them in good duties. The weakness of the flesh is a great grievance to the willingness of the spirit. It will not be so in heaven, where the body shall be made spiritual, where they rest not, day nor night, from praising God, and yet faint not; where they hunger no more, nor thirst any more, Rev. 7. 16.

Here is, 2. Christ's power. His pity of their wants sets his power on work for their supply. Now observe,

[1.] How his power was distrusted by his disciples; (v. 33.) Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness? A proper question, one would think, like that of Moses, (Numb. 11. 22.) Shall the flocks and the herds be slain to suffice them? But it was here an improper question, considering not only the general assurance the disciples had of the power of Christ, but the particular experience they lately had of a seasonable and sufficient provision by miracle in a like case; they had been not only the witnesses, but the ministers, of the former miracle; the multiplied bread went through their hands; so that it was an instance of great weakness for them to ask, Whence shall we have bread? Could they be at a loss, while they had their Master with them? Note, Forgetting former experiences leaves us under present doubts.

Christ knew how slender the provision was, but he would know it from them; (v. 34.) How many loaves have ye? Before he would work, he would have it seen how little he had to work on, that his power might shine the brighter. What they had, they had for themselves, and it was little enough for their own family; but Christ would have them bestow it all upon the multitude, and trust Providence for more. Note, It becomes Christ's disciples to be generous, their Master was so; what we have, we should be free of, as there is occasion; given to hospitality; not like Nabal, (1 Sam. 25. 11.) but like Elisha, 2 Kings 4. 42. Niggardliness to-day, out of thoughtfulness for to-morrow, is a complication of corrupt affections that ought to be mortified. If we be prudently kind and charitable with what we have, we may piously hope that God will send more. Jehovah-jireh; The Lord will provide. The disciples asked, Whence should we have bread? Christ asked, How many loaves have ye? Note, When we cannot have what we would, we must make the best of what we have, and do good with it as far as it will go: we must not think so much of our wants as of our havings. Christ herein went according to the rule he gave to Martha, not to be troubled about many things, nor cumbered about much serving. Nature is content with little, grace with less, but lust with nothing.

[2.] How his power was discovered to the multitude, in the plentiful provision he made for them; the manner of which is much the same as before, ch. 14. 18, &c. Observe here,

First, The provision that was at hand; seven loaves, and a few little fishes: the fish not proportionable to the bread, for bread is the staff of life. It is probable that the fish was such as they had themselves taken; for they were fishers, and were now near the sea. Note, It is comfortable to eat the labour of our hands, (Ps. 128. 2.) and to enjoy that which is any way the product of our own industry, Prov. 12. 27. And what we have got by God's blessing on our labour we should be free of; for therefore we must labour, that we may have to give, Eph. 4. 28.

Secondly, The putting of the people in a posture to receive it; (v. 35.) He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. They saw but very little provision, yet they must sit down, in faith that they should have a meal's meat out of it. They who would have spiritual food from Christ, must sit down at his feet, to hear his word, and expect it to come in an unseen way.

Thirdly, The distributing of the provision among them. He first gave thanks—. The word used in the former miracle was —he blessed. It comes all to one; giving thanks to God is a proper way of craving a blessing from God. And when we come to ask and receive further mercy, we ought to give thanks for the mercies we have received. He then brake the loaves, (for it was in the breaking that the bread multiplied,) and gave to his disciples, and they to the multitude. Though the disciples had distrusted Christ's power, yet he made use of them now as before; he is not provoked, as he might be, by the weaknesses and infirmities of his ministers, to lay them aside; but still he gives to them, and they to his people, of the word of life.

Fourthly, The plenty there was among them; (v. 37.) They did all eat, and were filled. Note, Those whom Christ feeds, he fills. While we labour for the world, we labour for that which satisfieth not; (Isa. 55. 2.) but those that duly wait on Christ shall be abundantly satisfied with the goodness of his house, Ps. 65. 4. Christ thus fed people once and again, to intimate that though he was called Jesus of Nazareth, yet he was of Bethlehem, the house of bread; or rather, that he was himself the Bread of life.

To show that they had all enough, there was a great deal left—seven baskets full of broken meat; not so much as there was before, because they did not gather after so many eaters, but enough to show that with Christ there is bread enough, and to spare; supplies of grace for more than seek it, and for those that seek more.


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 * A Chain of Truths by John Allen
 * Wat Tyler; A Dramatic Poem by Robert Southey (1817)
 * An Improved System of Fencing by C. Martelli (1819)
 * The Coronation (1821)

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 * The New and Approved Art of Fencing (1824)
 * The New and Complete Pigeon Fancier (c. 1824–1827)
 * The Popular Story of Blue Beard (c. 1824–1827)
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 * The Nursery Alphabet (c. 1824–1827)
 * The Golden Present (c. 1824–1827)
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30Rh the grandson of Jenghis Khan, and the first Mongol who was acknowledged Emperor of China, where he ousted the Sung dynasty (960–1277). By this time, contact with China had somewhat abated the savagery of the first conquerors.

Kublai removed his capital from Kara Korom in Mongolia to Peking. He built walls like those which still surround the city, and established on the walls an observatory which is preserved to this day. Until 1900, two of the astronomical instruments constructed by Kublai were still to be seen in this observatory, but the Germans removed them to Potsdam after the suppression of the Boxers. I understand they have been restored in accordance with one of the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. If so, this was probably the most important benefit which that treaty secured to the world. Kublai plays the same part in Japanese history that Philip II plays in the history of England. He prepared an Invincible Armada, or rather two successive armadas, to conquer Japan, but they were defeated, partly by storms, and partly by Japanese valour.

After Kublai, the Mongol Emperors more and more adopted Chinese ways, and lost their tyrannical vigour. Their dynasty came to an end in 1370, and was succeeded by the pure Chinese Ming dynasty, which lasted until the Manchu conquest of 1644. The Manchus in turn adopted Chinese ways, and were overthrown by a patriotic revolution in 1911, having contributed nothing notable to the native culture of China except the pigtail, officially abandoned at the Revolution.

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31Rh on the contrary, considering its extent and resources, it has at most times shown itself weak and incompetent in war. Its southern neighbours were even less warlike, and were less in extent. Its northern and western neighbours inhabited a barren country, largely desert, which was only capable of supporting a very sparse population. The Huns were defeated by the Chinese after centuries of warfare; the Tartars and Manchus, on the contrary, conquered China. But they were too few and too uncivilized to impose their ideas or their way of life upon China, which absorbed them and went on its way as if they had never existed. Rome could have survived the Goths, if they had come alone, but the successive waves of barbarians came too quickly to be all civilized in turn. China was saved from this fate by the Gobi Desert and the Tibetan uplands. Since the white men have taken to coming by sea, the old geographical immunity is lost, and greater energy will be required to preserve the national independence.

In spite of geographical advantages, however, the persistence of Chinese civilization, fundamentally unchanged since the introduction of Buddhism, is a remarkable phenomenon. Egypt and Babylonia persisted as long, but since they fell there has been nothing comparable in the world. Perhaps the main cause is the immense population of China, with an almost complete identity of culture throughout. In the middle of the eighth century, the population of China is estimated at over 50 millions, though ten years later, as a result of devastating wars, it is said to have sunk to about 17 millions. A census has been taken at various times in Chinese history, but usually a census of houses, not of individuals.


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32Rh From the number of houses the population is computed by a more or less doubtful calculation. It is probable, also, that different methods were adopted on different occasions, and that comparisons between different enumerations are therefore rather unsafe. Putnam Weale says:—

I do not think such definite statements are warranted. The China Year Book for 1919 (the latest I have seen) says (p. 1):—

The taking of a census by the methods adopted in Western nations has never yet been attempted in China, and consequently estimates of the total population have varied to an extraordinary degree. The nearest approach to a reliable estimate is, probably, the census taken by the Minchengpu


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 a book, comes towards us and lifts a curious eye at the botanist's gestures. And then

"Scars of the past! Scars of the past! These fanciful, useless dreams!"

There is no jerk, no sound, no hint of material shock. We are in London, and clothed in the fashion of the town. The sullen roar of London fills our ears

I see that I am standing beside an iron seat of poor design in that grey and gawky waste of asphalt—Trafalgar Square, and the botanist, with perplexity in his face, stares from me to a poor, shrivelled, dirt-lined old woman—my God! what a neglected thing she is!—who proffers a box of matches

He buys almost mechanically, and turns back to me.

"I was saying," he says, "the past rules us absolutely. These dreams"

His sentence does not complete itself. He looks nervous and irritated.

"You have a trick at times," he says instead, "of making your suggestions so vivid"

He takes a plunge. "If you don't mind," he says in a sort of quavering ultimatum, "we won't discuss that aspect of the question—the lady, I mean—further."

He pauses, and there still hangs a faint perplexity between us.

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 For a moment we stand there, and my dream of Utopia runs off me like water from an oiled slab. Of course—we lunched at our club. We came back from Switzerland by no dream train but by the ordinary Bâle express. We have been talking of that Lucerne woman he harps upon, and I have made some novel comment on his story. I have touched certain possibilities.

"You can't conceivably understand," he says.

"The fact remains," he goes on, taking up the thread of his argument again with an air of having defined our field, "we are the scars of the past. That's a thing one can discuss—without personalities."

"No," I say rather stupidly, "no."

"You are always talking as though you could kick the past to pieces; as though one could get right out from oneself and begin afresh. It is your weakness—if you don't mind my being frank—it makes you seem harsh and dogmatic. Life has gone easily for you; you have never been badly tried. You have been lucky—you do not understand the other way about. You are—hard."

I answer nothing.

He pants for breath. I perceive that in our discussion of his case I must have gone too far, and that he has rebelled. Clearly I must have said something wounding about that ineffectual love-story of his.

"You don't allow for my position," he says, and it occurs to me to say, "I'm obliged to look at the thing from my own point of view"

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33Rh (Ministry of Interior) in 1910, the results of which are embodied in a report submitted to the Department of State at Washington by Mr. Raymond P. Tenney, a Student Interpreter at the U.S. Legation, Peking…. It is pointed out that even this census can only be regarded as approximate, as, with few exceptions, households and not individuals were counted.

The estimated population of the Chinese Empire (exclusive of Tibet) is given, on the basis of this census, as 329,542,000, while the population of Tibet is estimated at 1,500,000. Estimates which have been made at various other dates are given as follows (p. 2):—

These figures suffice to show how little is known about the population of China. Not only are widely divergent estimates made in the same year (e.g. 1760), but in other respects the figures are incredible. Mr. Putnam Weale might contend that the drop from 60 millions in 1580 to 21 millions in 1662 was due to the wars leading to the Manchu conquest. But no one can believe that between 1711 and 1736 the


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34Rh the population increased from 28 millions to 125 millions, or that it doubled between 1790 and 1792. No one knows whether the population of China is increasing or diminishing, whether people in general have large or small families, or any of the other facts that vital statistics are designed to elucidate. What is said on these subjects, however dogmatic, is no more than guess-work. Even the population of Peking is unknown. It is said to be about 900,000, but it may be anywhere between 800,000 and a million. As for the population of the Chinese Empire, it is probably safe to assume that it is between three and four hundred millions, and somewhat likely that it is below three hundred and fifty millions. Very little indeed can be said with confidence as to the population of China in former times; so little that, on the whole, authors who give statistics are to be distrusted.

There are certain broad features of the traditional Chinese civilization which give it its distinctive character. I should be inclined to select as the most important: (1) The use of ideograms instead of an alphabet in writing; (2) The substitution of the Confucian ethic for religion among the educated classes; (3) government by literati chosen by examination instead of by a hereditary aristocracy. The family system distinguishes traditional China from modern Europe, but represents a stage which most other civilizations have passed through, and which is therefore not distinctively Chinese; the three characteristics which I have enumerated, on the other hand, distinguish China from all other countries of past times. Something must be said at this stage about each of the three.

1. As everyone knows, the Chinese do not have letters, as we do, but symbols for whole words. This


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IV.]

These warriors’ names I’ll tell you: the first was Lud’ger hight,

Out of the Saxon country, a rich king of great might;

And Ludegast came with him, who was of Denmark king ;—

These twain brought many with them, a princely following.

To Gunther’s land the heralds their ready steps had bent,

Whom those kings, his opponents, had with their message sent.

The unknown men were questioned as to the news they brought,

And, summoned by King Gunther, the royal presence sought.

The king did greet them fairly; “Be welcome here,” quoth he,

“Though who hath sent you hither is yet unknown to me:

That must I hear now of you,” declared the monarch good.

Exceedingly they fearéd King Gunther's angry mood.

“If thou, O king, allowest, the message we’ll reveal

Which we are sent to bring thee, and nothing will conceal,

We’ll name to you the masters who’ve sent us to this strand:

Lud’gast and Lud’ger, namely, who would invade your land.

“Ye have incurred their anger, nor shun we here to state

That both our masters harbour for you the greatest hate.

They mean to come with armies to Worms upon the Rhine:

And many warriors aid them;— so warn we thee and thine.

“Within twelve weeks their journey must here accomplished be,

If you’ve good friends to help you, you’ll seek them speedily

To guard your land and castles, and fight in battlefield.

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“Or, if ye will treat with them, so make your offer: then

They will not bring upon you their hosts of arméd men,

All bitter foes unto you, to work you grievous woe,

Destroying your fair knighthood with many a deadly blow.”

“ Now tarry here a little,” replied the monarch good,

“Until I have bethought me,— then shall ye learn my mood.

If I have faithful subjects I must not hide this thing;

This grievous errand must I unto my lieges bring.”

Rich as he was, to Gunther it was a trouble sore;

Within his heart the matter he pondered o’er and o'er.

He sent in quest of Hagen, and others of his men,

And bade them from the palace to fetch King Germot then.

His worthiest came unto him, all that were found to hand.

He spake: “The foeman cometh here into this our land,

Bringing a mighty army; to work you all much woe.”

To which the bold knight Gernot made answer: “Nay, not so,

“Our good swords shall defend us!” undaunted Gernot said;

‘“None but the doomed die, ever,— and they’re as good as dead!

For fear of death, I’ll never forget mine honour dear.

Let the foe come, and welcome! they’ll find us ready here!

Then Hagen spake, of Tronjé: “The thing doth bode no good;

Lud’gast and Lud’ger both are too arrogant of mood.

The time’s too short to gather, and furnish all our men;

Ye must advise with Siegfried.” Thus spake the bold Hagen.


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They bade men take the heralds, and lodge them in the town.

However hostile to them, for sake of his renown

Gunther would have them cared for, as was their due and right;

Until he knew what friends would stand by him in the fight.

Yet the king’s heart was heavy and sad with anxious care.

But one beheld him mourning,— a gallant knight and fair,

Who knew not of the sorrow that had befall’n the king;—

Therefore besought he Gunther to declare to him this thing.

“To me it is a marvel,” quoth Siegfried (for ’twas he),

“How all your merry custom hath changéd utterly,

Which was the rule among us, and hath so long held sway?”

To which, in answer, Gunther, the comely knight did say:

“Not unto every comer would I the grief declare,

Which close within my bosom in secret I must bear:

One keeps one’s deepest sorrow for stedfast friends,” he said.

At this did Siegfried’s colour change quick, ‘twixt white and red.

“I never haye denied you,” he spake unto the king ;—

“And shall not, in this trouble, my strong arm succour bring?

If you for friends are seeking, lo, am I not your friend?

I trust to be so ever,— with honour, till mine end.”

“Now God reward you, Siegfried, for what you now have said.

And though your strength should never be needed in mine aid,

Yet doth this news rejoice me, that you my friend will be;—

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“And you shall hear the reason wherefore I now am sad:

From enemies, by heralds, this message I have had;

That they will, with their armies, assail us, at our door;—

The like no warriors ever did in these lands before.”

“Let not your heart be troubled,” quoth Siegfried, thereunto;

“And calm your anxious spirit, and as I pray you, do!

Leave itto me to win you honour and vantage both,

And bid your thanes come hither to aid you, nothing loth.

“Although your mighty foemen should have at their command

Full thirty thousand swordsmen, yet would I them withstand,

Though I had but a thousand: so leave this all to me.”

“For this,” said Gunther, “ever your debtor I shall be.”

“So let a thousand warriors at my disposal be,

Stace I of mine own following, have only here with me

A dozen knights, all reckoned: thus will I guard your land,

And faithfully at all times shall serve you Siegfried’s hand.

“In this must Hagen help us, his nephew Ortwein too,

Dankwart and Sindold also, all knights beloved of you.

And Volker shall ride with us, Volker the gallant man,

A better one I know not, and he shall lead the van.

“And let the heralds ride back  home to their masters’ land;

And that they soon shall see us give them to understand,

That peace within our castles may undisturbéd reign.”

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The messengers of Lud’ger  straightway to court repair.

At news of home-returning greatly rejoiced they were.

The good King Gunther gave them rich gifts to take away,

And promised them safe conduct: right glad of heart were they.

“Say now,” King Gunther bade them, “unto my foes who come,

They’d best forego this journey, and stay content at home.

But, if they be determined to seek me in my land,

Unless my good friends fail me, they’ll find their work to hand.”

Rich presents then they, straightway, before the heralds bore,

Gunther was rich in treasure, and had enough and more;

These men of Lud’ger’s durst not refuse the offered fee,

And when they leave had taken, departed joyfully.

Now when they unto Denmark returnéd were at last,

And had declared the tidings unto King Ludegast,

Which they had brought from Rhineland, and all to him was said,

The proud and haughty answer filled him with grief and dread.

They said that by the Rhine dwelt full many a gallant wight:

“Among them, with King Gunther, there was a certain knight,

Who bore the name of Siegfried,— a knight of Netherland.”

Sore grieved was Lud’gast when he this news did understand,

As soon as they of Denmark had heard the news of war,

They made all haste to gather their friends from near and far,

Till Ludegast could reckon on twenty-thousand men,

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 and Spain at large felt proud at this dashing bit of enterprise in modern appliance. Alas! the primeval forests of Fernando Po were also charmed with the new toy, and they talked to each other on it with their leaves and branches to such an extent that a human being could not get a word in edgeways. So the Governor had to order the construction of a road along the course of the wire to keep the trees off it, but unfortunately the telephone is still an uncertain means of communication, because another interruption in its usefulness still afflicts it, namely the indigenous natives' habit of stealing bits out of its wire, for they are fully persuaded that they cannot be found out in their depredations provided they take sufficient care that they are not caught in the act. The Governor is thus liable to be cut off at any moment in the middle of a conversation with Clarence, and the amount of "Hellos" "Are you theres?" and "Speak louder, pleases" in Spanish that must at such times be poured out and wasted in the lonely forests before the break is realised and an unfortunate man sent off as a messenger, is terrible to think of.

But nothing would persuade the Governor to come a mile down towards Clarence until the day he should go there to join the vessel that was to take him home, and I am bound to say he looked as if the method was a sound one, for he was an exceedingly healthy, cheery-looking man. Possibly his abstinence from Fernando Po water—a dangerous beverage—and an adherence to a form of light sherry, had something to do with his immunity from fever, for his neighbours, the colonists and priests who are stationed near him, are by no means good advertisements for Basile as a health-resort.

Fernando Po is said to be a comparatively modern island, and not so very long ago to have been connected with the mainland, the strait between them being only nineteen miles across, and not having any deep soundings. I fail to see what grounds there are for these ideas, for though Fernando Po's volcanoes are not yet extinct, but merely have their fires


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King Ludeger the Saxon assembled his men, too,

Till he had forty thousand or even more to show,

Ready to join the others, and ride to Burgundy.

Nor was King Gunther idle at home, for also he

Sent word to all his kinsmen, and to his brothers’ men,

To bid their troops assemble to go to battle then;

And likewise Hagen’s warriors, the heroes needed all.

Whereby must many a chieftain in death, thereafter, fall.

So made they all things ready. When perfect was each plan,

The gallant warrior, Volker, was bade to lead the van,

And thus they rode together from Worms, upon the Rhine,

The chief command to Hagen of Tronjé they assign.

With them did ride Sir Sindold, and eke the brave Hunold,

Two knights of whom was either well worth King Gunther’s gold;

And Dankwart, Hagen’s brother, his nephew Ortwein too,

Who also might with honour upon the war-march go,

“Sir king,” said Siegfried, “prithee, in quiet bide at home,

Seeing that all thy warriors with me to battle come,

Remain to guard the women, and aye be of good cheer:

I trow I can take care of your honour and your gear!

“From those who would assail you, at Worms upon the Rhine,

I’ll see that nought of evil befall or thee or thine.

So closely will we press them, and compass them so near,

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 banked, yet, on the other hand, the island has been in existence sufficiently long to get itself several peculiar species of animals and plants, and that is a thing which takes time. I myself do not believe that this island was ever connected with the continent, but arose from the ocean as the result of a terrific upheaval in the chain of volcanic activity which runs across the Atlantic from the Cameroon Mountains in a SSW. direction to Anno Bom island, and possibly even to the Tristan da Cunha group midway between the Cape and South America.

These volcanic islands are all of extreme beauty and fertility. They consist of Fernando Po (10,190 ft.); Principe, (3000 ft.); San Thomé (6,913 ft.); and Anno Bom, (1,350 ft.). San Thomé and Principe are Portuguese possessions, Fernando Po and Anno Bom Spanish, and they are all exceedingly unhealthy. San Thomé is still called "The Dutchman's Church-yard," on account of the devastation its climate wrought among the Hollanders when they once occupied it: as they seem, at one time or another, to have occupied all Portuguese possessions out here, during the long war these two powers waged with each other for supremacy in the Bights, a supremacy that neither of them attained to. Principe is said to be the most unhealthy, and the reason of the difference in this particular between Principe and Anno Bom is said to arise from the fact that the former is on the Guinea Current—a hot current—and Anno Bom on the Equatorial, which averages 10° cooler than its neighbour.

The shores of San Thomé are washed by both currents, and the currents round Fernando Po are in a mixed and uncertain state. It is difficult, unless you have haunted these seas, to realise the interest we take down there in currents, particularly when you are navigating small sailing boats, a pursuit I indulge in necessarily from my fishing practices. Their effect on the climate too is very marked. If we could only arrange for some terrific affair to take place in the bed of the Atlantic, that would send that precious Guinea current to the place it evidently comes from, and get the cool Equatorial alongside the mainland shore, West Africa would be quite another place.


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From Rhine they rode through Hesse, their warriors as well,

Towards the Saxon country,— where they to fighting fell.

They ravaged all the borders and spoiled with sword and brand,

Till fear fell on those princes, who sorrowed for their land.

So came they o’er the marches; their followers pressed on,

And then the gallant Siegfried began to think thereon:

“Who shall defend our camp-folk, now we have brought them here?

More damage-wreaking raiders to Saxons never were.”

Some counselled: “On the marchlet bold Dankwart guard our youth;

He is a trusty warrior, and swift in act, forsooth:

Let him and also Ortwein have conduct of the rear;

So shall we have less damage from Lud’ger’s men to fear.”

“Then I myself will ride on,” did gallant Siegfried cry,

And keep the foremost outlook, till we the foe espy;

Until I find out where these same crafty warriors lurk.”

Fair Sieglind’s son then quickly donned helmet and hauberk.

The rank and file to Hagen he entrusted as he went,

And also unto Gernat, the warrior excellent.

Then all alone forth rode he into the Saxon-land;

That very day his sword hewed full many a helmet-band.

He saw a whole vast army upon the plain outspread,

By which his own few helpers were far outnumberéd;

There were full forty thousand, or even more, maybe;—

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 or in the modified form in which he restated it, did not express the phenomena of alternative inheritance known to him with sufficient accuracy to justify its strict application to them, and also on general grounds, proposed that the phenomena of blended and alternative inheritance should be treated apart—a suggestion the wisdom of which can scarcely be questioned.

Now the law thus imperfectly set forth and every modification of it is incomplete in one respect. It deals only with the characters of the resulting zygotes and predicates nothing in regard to the gametes which go to form them. A good prediction may be made as to any given group of zygotes, but the various possible constitutions of the gametes are not explicitly treated.

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 part of the heritage. The theory further demands—and by the analogy of what we know otherwise not only of animals and plants, but of physical or chemical laws, perhaps this is the most serious assumption of all—that the structure of the gametes shall admit of their being capable of transmitting any character in any intensity varying from zero to totality with equal ease; and that gametes of each intensity are all equally likely to occur, given a pedigree of appropriate arithmetical composition.

Such an assumption appears so improbable that even in cases where the facts seem as yet to point to this conclusion with exceptional clearness, as in the case of human stature, I cannot but feel there is still room for reserve of judgment.

However this may be, the Law of Ancestral Heredity, and all modifications of it yet proposed, short in the respect specified above, that it does not directly attempt to give any account of the distribution of the heritage among the gametes of any one individual.

Mendel's conception differs fundamentally from that involved in the Law of Ancestral Heredity. The relation of his hypothesis to the foregoing may be most easily shown if we consider it first in application to the phenomena resulting from the cross-breeding of two pure varieties.

Let us again consider the case of two varieties each displaying the same character, but in the respective intensities A and a. Each gamete of the A variety bears A, and each gamete of the a variety bears a. When they unite in fertilisation they form the zygote Aa. What will be its characters? The Mendelian teaching would reply that this can only be known by direct experiment with the two forms A and a, and that the characters A and a perceived


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 from the continent it looks like an immense single mountain that has floated out to sea. It is visible during clear weather (and particularly sharply visible in the strange clearness you get after a tornado) from a hundred miles to seawards, and anything more perfect than Fernando Po when you sight it, as you occasionally do from far-away Bonny Bar, in the sunset, floating like a fairy island made of gold or of amethyst, I cannot conceive. It is almost equally lovely at close quarters, namely from the mainland at Victoria, nineteen miles distant. Its moods of beauty are infinite; for the most part gentle and gorgeous, but I have seen it silhouetted hard against tornado-clouds, and grandly grim from the upper regions of its great brother Mungo. And as for Fernando Po in full moonlight—well there! you had better go and see it yourself.

The whole island is, or rather I should say was, heavily forested almost to its peak, with a grand and varied type of forest, very rich in oil palms and tree-ferns, and having an undergrowth containing an immense variety and quantity of ferns and mosses. Sugar-cane also grows wild here, an uncommon thing in West Africa. The last botanical collection of any importance made from these forests was that of Herr Mann, and its examination showed that Abyssinian genera and species predominated, and that many species similar to those found in the mountains of Mauritius, the Isle de Bourbon, and Madagascar, were present. The number of European plants (forty-three genera, twenty-seven species) is strikingly large, most of the British forms being represented chiefly at the higher elevations. What was more striking was that it showed that South African forms were extremely rare, and not one of the characteristic types of St. Helena occurred.

Cocoa, coffee, and cinchona, alas! flourish in Fernando Po, as the coffee suffers but little from the disease that harasses it on the mainland at Victoria, and this is the cause of the great destruction of the forest that is at present taking place. San Thomé, a few years ago, was discovered by its surprised neighbours to be amassing great wealth by growing coffee, and so Fernando Po and Principe immediately started to amass great wealth too, and are now hard at work with gangs of miscellaneous natives got from all parts of the Coast save the


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On the foe’s side a warrior had to the front been sent,

Who on his guard stood ready, watchful and diligent.

The hero Siegfried saw him, and the bold man saw him:

And each did watch the other, with jealous hate and grim.

I’ll tell you who it was, who thus sentinel did stand:

(A shining shield of red gold was hanging on his hand,)

King Ludegast it was who his army thus did guard,—

The noble guest spurred forward to meet him on the sward.

King Ludegast had also his enemy espied,

And each sharp spurs had driven into his stallion’s side,

With lances on the shields bent each charged with all his might,

And Ludegast the mighty was soon in sorry plight.

After the crash, the chargers bore the two princes by,

As if a mighty storm-wind had blown them furiously,

Till each, the rein obeying, was turned in knightly way;

Then did the two grim foemen with swords their skill essay.

The mighty strokes of Siegfried made all the field resound,

Until King Lud’gast’s helmet seemed flaming all around,—

The fire-red sparks shot upwards beneath the hero’s hand,

Each knight found in his fellow a foeman worth his brand.

King Lud’gast dealt him also right many an ugly blow:

Their good shields caught the sword-thrusts, that else had laid

them low.

Of Lud’gast’s warriors, thirty were witness of the fray.

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 Kru. For to the Kruboy, "Panier," as he calls "Spaniard," is a name of horror worse even than Portuguee, although he holds "God made white man and God made black man, but dem debil make Portuguee," and he also remembers an unfortunate affair that occurred some years ago now, in connection with coffee-growing.

A number of Krumen engaged themselves for a two years' term of labour on the Island of San Thomé, and when they arrived there, were set to work on coffee plantations by the Portuguese. Now agricultural work is "woman's palaver," but nevertheless the Krumen made shift to get through with it, vowing the while no doubt, as they hopefully notched away the moons on their tally-sticks, that they would never let the girls at home know that they had been hoeing. But when their moons were all complete, instead of being sent home with their pay to "we country," they were put off from time to time, and month after month went by and they were still on San Thomé, and still hoeing. At last the home-sick men, in despair of ever getting free, started off secretly in ones and twos to try and get to "we country" across hundreds of miles of the storm-haunted Atlantic in small canoes, and with next to no provisions. The result was a tragedy, but it might easily have been worse; for a few, a very few, were picked up alive by English vessels and taken back to their beloved "we country" to tell the tale. But many a canoe was found with a dead Kruboy or so in it; and many a one which, floating bottom upwards, graphically spoke of madness caused by hunger, thirst, and despair having driven its occupants over-board to the sharks.

My Portuguese friends assure me that there was never a thought of permanently detaining the boys, and that they were only just keeping them until other labourers arrived to take their place on the plantations. I quite believe them, for I have seen too much of the Portuguese in Africa to believe that they would, in a wholesale way, be cruel to natives. But I am not in the least surprised that the poor Krumen took the Portuguese logo and amanhã for eternity itself, for I have frequently done so.

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From three great wounds and ghastly, which to the king he dealt

Clean through his white, steel harness; — though it was firmly welt,—

Where the keen sword-point entered burst from his wounds

the blood.

King Ludegast might well be thereat of doleful mood!

He begged for life; and offered to pledge to him his land,

Telling him that ’twas Lud’gast whose fate was in his hand.

And then uprode his warriors, who witnessed had right well

What, ’twixt the twain before them, upon the watch, befell.

Siegfried now thence would take him; but he was set upon

By thirty of the foemen: yet did he hold his own,

And kept his wealthy captive; and struck out, brave and true,

And gave those stately chieftains much bitter cause to rue.

In self-defence, the thirty he thereupon did slay.

One only left he living; who spurred his steed away

To bear the direful tidings of all that there befell:

Which eke his bloody helmet did but too plainly tell.

When to the men of Denmark the dreadful news was told,—

How that their king wastaken,— they scarce their grief could hold,

And when they told his brother, he fell to rave like mad,

In uncontrolléd fury,— so great the grief he had.

So Ludegast the warrior was captive made, and then

Led from the field by Siegfried, and giv’n to Gunther’s men.

To Hagen’s care they gave him; and when they heard the truth,

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The banner of Burgundia was fixed its staff unto.

“Come on, my men!” cried Siegfried, “here have we more to do,

Before the day be ended. If God preserve my life,

There'll weep among the Saxons full many a comely wife!

“Give ear, ye Rhine-born heroes, unto these words I say:

To Lud’ger’s host I, truly, can show ye straight the way.

Ye'll see some helmet-hewing by heroes’ hands, I trow!

And, ere we turn us homewards, what grief is some shall know.”

To horse did Gernot hasten, as eke did all his men.

Aloft upbore the banner the stalwart minstrel-thane,—

The high-born noble Volker;— before the host he rode;

And eke the camp-folk, following, proudly to battle strode.

They had no more, all counted, than just a thousand men

And twelve, with those of Siegfried. The dust ’gan rising then

Upon the streets and roadways, as through the land they rode:

One saw their lances shining, and many a good shield glowed.

Now also had the Saxons come forth in great array.

Their swords were finely sharpened, as I have heard men say;

And keen they were and deadly, wielded by heroes’ hands:

Therewith they, from the strangers, would castle guard and lands.

The marshal of the Rhine-men led on his warriors then.

And Siegfried followed closely, with the twelve valiant men

Whem he had brought as comrades from out the Netherland.

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 amounts to thirty-three miles; the mean breadth is seventeen miles. The port, Clarence Cove, now called Santa Isabel by the Spaniards who have been giving Spanish names to all the English-named places without any one taking much notice of them—is a very remarkable place, and except perhaps Gaboon the finest harbour on the West Coast. The point that brings Gaboon, anchorage up in line with Clarence Cove is its superior healthiness; for Clarence is a section of a circle, and its shores are steep rocky cliffs from 100 to 200 feet high, and the place, to put it very mildly, exceedingly hot and stuffy. The cove is evidently a partly submerged crater, the submerged rim of the crater is almost a perfect semi-circle seawards—having on it 4, 5, 7, 8, and 10 fathoms of water save almost in the centre of the arc where there is a passage with 12 to 14 fathoms. Inside, in the crater, there is deeper water, running in places from 30 to 45 fathoms, and outside the submerged rim there is deeper water again, but rocky shoals abound. On the top of the shore cliffs stands the dilapidated little town of Clarence, on a plateau that falls away slightly towards the mountain for about a mile, when the ground commences to rise into the slopes of the Cordillera. On the narrow beach, tucked close against the cliffs, are a few stores belonging to the merchants, where goods are placed on landing; and there is a little pier too, but as it is usually having something done to its head, or else is closed by the authorities because they intend doing something by and by, the chances are against its being available for use. Hence it usually comes about that you have to land on the beach, and when you have done this you make your way up a very steep path, cut in the cliff-side, to the town. When you get there you find yourself in the very dullest town I know on the Coast. I remember when I first landed in Clarence I found its society in a flutter of expectation and alarm not untinged with horror. Clarence, nay, the whole of Fernando Po, was about to become so rackety and dissipated as to put Paris and Monte Carlo to the blush. Clarence was going to have a café; and what was going to go on in that café I shrink from reciting.

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For Sindold’s might, and Hunold’s, and Gernot’s had laid

In course of that fell combat, full many a hero dead,

Ere they had time to reckon the valour of the foe.

And many a winsome lady that day must weep for woe.

Sir Volker and Sir Hagen, and also Ortewein,

Dimmed in that strife the light that from many a helm did shine,

With damp of blood downpouring,— these battle-valiant men!

Sir Dankwart’s prowess also wrought many a marvel then.

And also they of Denmark did well their weapons wield,

And many a thrust resounded on many a polish’d shield;

And the sharp sword-strokes echoed death-dealing, blow on blow.

The warlike Saxons likewise did harm enough, I trow!

As now the bold Burgundians, pressed forward in the fight,

By them was many a sword-wound, wide-cleft,—a ghastly sight!

And streaming o’er the saddles, one saw the reeking blood.

Thus fought they for dear honour, those valiant knights and good.

One heard there, loud-resounding, from every hero’s hand,

The clashing of keen weapons; whilst they of Netherland

Dashed after their bold leader, into the thickest fray.

Right valiantly they followed where Siegfried showed the way.

For him the Rhenish heroes could never come anigh;—

One might have seen down-flowing red streamlets bloodily

Beneath the glitt’ring helmets, cloven by Siegfried’s hand;—

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 asleep and its streets as weed-grown as ever, although the café was open. My idea is the sleepiness of the place infected the café and took all the go out of it. But again it may have been that the inhabitants were too well guarded against its evil influence, for there are on the island fifty-two white laymen, and fifty-four priests to take charge of them —the extra two being, I presume, to look after the Governor's conduct, although this worthy man made a most spirited protest against this view when I suggested it to him; and in addition to the priests there are several missionaries of the Methodist mission, and also a white gentleman who has invented a new religion. Anyhow, the café smoulders like a damp squib.

When you spend the day on shore and when, having exhausted the charms of the town,—a thing that usually takes from between ten minutes to a quarter of an hour,—you apply to an inhabitant for advice as to the disposal of the rest of your shore leave, you are told to "go and see the coals." You say you have not come to tropical islands to see a coal heap, and applying elsewhere for advice you probably get the same. So, as you were told to "go and see the coals" when you left your ship, you do as you are bid. These coals, the remnant of the store that was kept here for the English men-of-war, were left here when the naval station was removed. The Spaniards at first thought of using them, and ran a tram-way from Clarence to them. But when the tram-way was finished, their activity had run out too, and to this day there the coals remain. Now and again some one has the idea that they are quite good, and can be used for a steamer, and some people who have tried them say they are all right, and others say they are all wrong. And so the end of it will be that some few thousand years hence there will be a serious quarrel among geologists on the strange pocket of coal on Fernando Po, and they will run up continents, and raise and lower oceans to explain them, and they will doubtless get


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 in those two forms or varieties need not give any indication as to the character of the zygote Aa. It may display the character A, or a, or a character half way between the two, or a character beyond A or below a. The character of Aa is not regarded as a heritage transmitted to it by A and by a, but as a character special and peculiar to Aa, just as NaCl is not a body half way between sodium and chlorine, or such that its properties can be predicted from or easily stated in terms of theirs.

If a concrete case may help, a tall pea A crossed with a dwarf a often produces, not a plant having the height of either A or a, but something taller than the pure tall variety A.

But if the case obeys the Mendelian principles—as does that here quoted—then it can be declared first that the gametes of Aa will not be bearers of the character proper to Aa; but, generally speaking, each gamete will either bear the pure A character or the pure a character. There will in fact be a redistribution of the characters brought in by the gametes which united to form the zygote Aa, such that each gamete of Aa is pure, as the parental gametes were. Secondly this redistribution will occur in such a way that, of the gametes produced by such Aa's, on an average there will be equal numbers of A gametes and of a gametes.

Consequently if Aa's breed together, the new A gametes may meet each other in fertilisation, forming a zygote AA, namely, the pure A variety again; similarly two a gametes may meet and form aa, or the pure a variety again. But if an A gamete meets an a it will once more form Aa, with its special character. This Aa is the hybrid, or "mule" form, or as I have elsewhere called it, the heterozygote, as distinguished from AA or aa the homozygotes.


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Three sev’ral times he’d traversed the host, from end to end,

And now, to help him, Hagen his steps did thither bend.

Right well in fight assuaged they the fierceness of their mood:

Through them that day must perish full many a warrior good.

When Ludeger the stalwart saw Siegfried near him stand,

And how aloft he wielded the good sword in his hand,—

The mighty weapon Balmung,— and what a host it slew:

The king waxed very wrathful, and fierce his anger grew.

Then was a mighty thronging, and clang of swords as well,

As on each side the warriors on their opponents fell.

The chieftains sought each other, mettle and strength to gauge;—

The hosts began to waver; then waxed the hate and rage.

The leader of the Saxons was well aware, I trow,

His brother was a captive,— and therefore grieved enow.

He knew too that the captor was Siegelinda’s son;—

’Twas first set down to Gernot, but soon the truth was known.

Se fierce was Lud’ger’s onslaught, and eke of such fell force,

That under Siegfried’s saddle stagger’d his battle-horse.

But soon it did recover; and, as the turmoil grew,

The aspect of bold Siegfried was terrible to view.

Hagen he had to aid him, and Gernot too was by,

And Dankwart and Sir Volker;— the dead around did lie.

There fought the bold thane Ortwein, and Sindold, and Hunold,

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Thanks for validating. Great work. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:41, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

 * @Koavf thanks to you! I forgot to reply to your summaries earlier: the reason I removed the hws, hwe, and NBSPs was that I didn't deem them necessary (the latter especially in long words), but I realize that actively removing them is counter-productive. now I'm sorry about the curly quotes; I apparently misidentified the origin of a text snippet in a quick Google search and I thought straight quotes were policy. I'll try to revert any other instances :') either way, I'll be done soon—great job on the proofreading! Catttte (talk) 18:21, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries, mate: we're all learning here. Let me know how I can help you. Happy to have you on board. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:23, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

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text: Potiphar's Wife and Other Poems

title: Potiphar's Wife and Other Poems


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I UNDERSTAND your hint. There are mysteries in physic, as well as in religion; which we of the profane have no right to investigate—A man must not presume to use his reason, unless he has studied the categories, and can chop logic by mode and figure—Between friends, I think, every man of tolerable parts ought, at my time of day, to be both physician and lawyer, as far as his own constitution and property are concerned. For my own part, I have had an hospital these fourteen years within myself, and studied my own case with the most painful attention; consequently may be supposed to know something of the matter, although I have not taken regular courses of physiology et cetera et cetera.—In short, I have for some time been of opinion (no offence, dear Doctor) that the sum of all your medical discoveries


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1. following reasons will establish that not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school.

2. In the first place, all who have been born to man’s estate have been born with the same end in view, namely, that they may be men, that is to say, rational creatures, the lords of other creatures, and the images of their Creator. All, therefore, must be brought on to a point at which, being properly imbued with wisdom, virtue, and piety, they may usefully employ the present life and be worthily prepared for that to come. God Himself has frequently asserted that with Him there is no respect of persons, so that, if, while we admit some to the culture of the intellect, we exclude others, we commit an injury not only against those who share the same nature as ourselves, but against God Himself, who wishes to be acknowledged, to be loved, and to be praised by all upon whom He has impressed His image. In this respect the fervour of all men will increase in proportion to the flame of knowledge that has been kindled. For our love is in direct ratio to our knowledge.

3. Now we do not know to what uses divine providence has destined this or that man; but this is certain, that out


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 of the poorest, the most abject, and the most obscure, He has produced instruments for His glory. Let us, therefore, imitate the sun in the heavens, which lights, warms, and vivifies the whole earth, so that whatever is able to live, to flourish, and to blossom, may do so.

4. Nor is it any obstacle that some seem to be naturally dull and stupid, for this renders more imperative the universal culture of such intellects. The slower and the weaker the disposition of any man, the more he needs assistance, that he may throw off his brutish dulness and stupidity as much as possible. Nor can any man be found whose intellect is so weak that it cannot be improved by culture. A sieve, if you continually pour water through it, grows cleaner and cleaner, although it cannot retain the liquid; and, in the same way, the dull and the weak-minded, though they may make no advance in letters, become softer in disposition and learn to obey the civil magistrates and the ministers of the Church. There have, besides, been many instances in which those who are naturally stupid have gained such a grasp of the sciences as to excel those who were more gifted. As the poet truly says: “Industry overcomes all obstacles.” Again, just as some men are strong as children, but afterwards grow sick and ailing, while others, whose bodies are sickly and undersized in youth, develope into robust and tall men; so it is with intellects. Some develope early, but soon wear out and grow dull, while others, originally stupid, become sharp and penetrating. In our orchards we like to have not only trees that bring forth early fruit, but also those that are late-bearing; for each thing, as says the son of Sirach, finds praise in its season, and at length, though late, shows that it has not existed in vain. Why, therefore, should we wish that in the garden of letters only one class of intellects, the forward and active, should be tolerated? Let none be excluded unless God has denied him sense and intelligence.

5. Nor can any sufficient reason be given why the weaker sex (to give a word of advice on this point in particular) should be altogether excluded from the pursuit


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 amounts to this, that the more you study the less you know.—I have read all that has been written on the Hot Wells, and what I can collect from the whole, is, that the water contains nothing but a little salt, and calcarious earth, mixed in such inconsiderable proportion, as can have very little, if any, effect on the animal economy. This being the case, I think, the man deserves to be fitted with a cap and bells, who for such a paultry advantage as this spring affords, sacrifices his precious time, which might be employed in taking more effectual remedies, and exposes himself to the dirt, the stench, the chilling blasts, and perpetual rains, that render this place to me intolerable. If these waters, from a small degree of astringency, are of some service in the diabetes, diarrhœa, and night sweats, when the secretions are too much increased, must not they do harm in the same proportion, where the humours are obstructed, as in the asthma, scurvey, gout, and dropsy?—Now we talk of the dropsy, here is a strange fantastical oddity, one of your brethren, who harangues every day in the Pump-room, as if he was hired to give lectures on all subjects whatsoever—I know not what to make of him—Sometimes he makes


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IV.]

In combat undivided these noble princes were;

And o’er their helmets, harmless, flew many a well-aimed spear

Between the glitt’ring targets from each opposing knight.

And blood-stained were the bucklers that whilom shone se bright.

And, in the stress of battle, full many an eager knight

Dismounted from his charger. Thus, hand to hand, did fight

Siegfried the bold, and Lud’ger, who each did each defy,

One saw the broken splinters of shafts and lances fly.

Fast flew the shield-clasps, severed by mighty Siegfried’s hand.

He thought himself the victor, this prince of Netherland,

Over the dauntless Saxons;— so many wounded lay.

Ha, how the bright mail-armour at Dankwart’s strokes did fray!

Just then the Saxon Lud’ger espied upon a shield

A kingly crown emblazoned, which Siegfried’s arm did wield.

Then knew he, of a surety, that ’twas the mighty man.

The chieftain to his comrades loudly to call began:

“Forego your fighting, warriors,— my lieges, all is done!

For here have I seen Siegfried, the royal Siegmund’s son;—

Siegfried the mighty hero mine eyes have seen, I trow,—

Sent by some evil devil to work us Saxons woe.”

Then lowered were the ensigns at Ludeger’s command.

For peace he sued; which, erelong, was granted to his band;

Though he as Gunther’s pris'ner must go to Burgundy:

Bold Siegfried’s hand alone ’twas that won this victory.