=Page 21.=--21-1. {=einen Herzog-Maxländler=}, _a country-dance tune_, named after the popular _Duke Max_ Joseph of Bavaria, the father of the lamented Empress Elisabeth of Austria, whose recent assassination (September 10, 1898) in Geneva (Switzerland) startled the whole world. 21-2. =in optima forma= (Lat. phrase), _in the best possible manner_ or _masterly_. 21-3. {=mit dem Gemsbarte=} ({am Hut}), cf. Page 5, Note 1. 21-4. {=mit= den Armen}, omit the preposition in English. 21-5. {=man=}, best to be rendered by changing to passive with the relat. pron. as subject. 21-6. {=es=} (indef.), here = {eine Stimme} or {der Gesang}. 21-7. Dialect. = {Und zwei Blätter und zwei Blumen Und eine Rebe um einen Stamm, Und was einander} (dat.) {bestimmt ist, Das find’t sich auch zusamm’.} 21-8. {=was--das=} (neuter, correlative), idiom, for masc. and fem. pl. = {die, welche}, _those who_. 21-9. {=a=} (dialect.) = (1) {ein, eine, ein}, and (2) {auch}; here = ? 21-10. {schallte =es=} (cf. Note 6, above), _another voice was heard_. 21-11. Dialect. = {Behüt dich Gott, mein kleines (liebes) Mädchen, Es muß ja so sein, Mein Leben gehört dem Kaiser, Mein Herz gehört dein! Und mein Herz, das laß ich Daheim in deinem Haus, Sonst träf’s vielleicht eine Kugel, Und die Lieb’ ränn’ (flösse) all heraus!} 21-12. {=es=} (introductory or grammatical subject), cf. Page 16, Note 9. =Page 22.=--22-1. Dialect. = {Seid gescheit! Seid gescheit! Nicht in alles gleich hinein! Es sitzt oft ein Fuchs In einer Pelzkappe drein (drin)!} The meaning is: Do not hurry in matters of love, for appearances are often deceitful, and what at first glance looks like a smooth and comfortable fur-cap (or fur-coat) may after all prove the hiding-place of a cunning fox; a simile taken from the old mountaineer’s sphere of observation (cp. the biblical phrase “a ravening wolf in sheep’s clothing”). 22-2. {=ja=} (adverb. idiom), _why, you know!_ or _you must know_. 22-3. {für’=s= Geld}, in English without article. 22-4. {=wohl=} (adverb. idiom), _sure enough_; _it is true_. 22-5. {=guter Dinge sein=} (a phrase with adverbial genit. of manner or quality), _to be of good cheer_ or _in high spirits_ (“in high feather”). 22-6. {=nahm sich auf die Seite=}, trans., _called to his side_. 22-7. {=es=} (indef.), here for (the contents of) _pans and pots_. 22-8. {=dafür, daß er nicht singen könne=} (lit., for this that he could not sing), _for his being unable to sing_. 22-9. {=spielte=} (obj. {die Zither} being implied). 22-10. {=es geht was=} (= {etwas}) {=drauf=} (colloq. phrase), _considerable money is spent_, or _business is booming_. 22-11. {=was thut’s?=} (colloq. phrase), _what does it matter?_