1-11. {=Nichte=}, (in students’ language) for {_Geliebte_}, _the adored one_; _love_; _sweetheart_. 1-12. =“Hotel du Lac”= (French = _“Lake Hotel”_--the French form to be retained in translation), a humorous allusion to the large hotels of the lakes of Switzerland, first-class in appointments and charges, which as a rule bear French names, while the less expensive stopping-places have such old-fashioned and unpretentious names as “The Bear Inn,” “The Ox Inn,” etc. =Page 2.=--2-1. {=hat man ...=}, conditional inversion = {wenn man ... hat}. 2-2. {=nichts=} = {kein Geld}. 2-3. {=so=} (here = {dann}) {=wird=}, _then the order will be_ or _the order is given:_ 2-4. {=die Gassen, in welchen es noch etwas zu zahlen gab=}, _the streets where they owed money_--the idea being: On their way to the railroad-station, the three students wisely evaded such streets where they owed money, fearing that, being seen there, by the heart-rending entreaties of their creditors they might be induced to spend part or all of their travelling money in settling old debts. 2-5. {=Nr.=} stands for {Nummer}. 2-6. {=Bä´deker=} ({Karl}) of Leipzig, and =Murray= (John) of London, well-known editors and publishers, the first named of a German and the other of an English set of guide-books, both uniformly bound in red cloth. 2-7. {=daran´=}, refers back to the contents of the preceding sentence, _from doing so_. 2-8. {=das=} ({der}) {=Barome´ter=}, note the accent. 2-9. The question {=„Wie viel Uhr hat es geschlagen?“=} (_“What time is it?”_) humorously used for {„Wie steht es mit dem Wetter?“} or {„Wie sieht es mit dem Wetter aus?“} (_“What are the weather-prospects?”_) 2-10. {=geschlagen.=} Note the omission of the auxiliary verb in „dependent“ clauses. 2-11. {=wir reisen=}, present tense for future, as frequently in German. 2-12. {=du wirst ... packen=}, the future sometimes used for an emphatic imperative. =Page 3.=--3-1. {=auf=} (time, prospectively), _for ..._ 3-2. {=das andere findet sich=} (phrase), _the rest will come of itself_. 3-3. {=der alte=} (= {derselbe, der gleiche}), _as of old_. 3-4. {=es=} (indefinite), here for {die Reise} or {wir}. 3-5. {=Dover=}, seaport in the county of Kent (England), on the Strait of Dover, and on one of the main lines between London and the Continent. 3-6. {=es=}, refers to {Töchterlein}; agreement with grammatical gender; {sie} would also be correct. 3-7. {=ihren Blicken=}, privative sense of dative--_from her eyes_. 3-8. {=geht’s=} = {geht =es=}, cf. Note 4, above. 3-9. {=Sandhase=} (=sandhare=), humorously applied to a native of a flat and sandy district, such as are found in the farthest northwest of Germany. =Page 4.=--4-1. {=schon=} (adverb. idiom), difficult to render into English, here perhaps: _readily_ or _unhesitatingly_. 4-2. {=es ist mir ... zu Mut=} (one of the many impersonal phrases), _I feel_. 4-3. ({sag´}) {=nur=} (adverb. idiom), with an imperative: _just_ tell, or _do_ tell!