of some distinguished descendant, and, throwing my arms around him, say, "Thou, true, good, contented-minded, gentle son! If I could just have shown _thee_ only, sitting in thy brood-cell, to my Eve, the queen-bee of this great swarm here present, at the time when I was delivering the second head of my marriage sermon, I'm sure she would have listened to reason, and given a favourable answer.'" "And thou, Siebenkæs, art that same, true, good son, and thou restest ever on the warm, heaving breast of "Thy Friend. "_Postscript and Clausula Salutaris_. "Please to forgive me this merry private ball and witches' dance upon cheap and nasty letter-paper, notwithstanding that you are unfortunately an infinitesimal fractional part of the German race, and as such, can't be expected either to stand, or to understand, such a dance of ideas. This is why I never print anything for the unwieldy German intellect; entire sheets which I have spawned full of playful idea-fishes of this sort I consign at once to regions where such productions do not usually arrive till they attain the evening of their days, having previously exercised the right of transit through the booksellers' shops. I was eight days in Hof, and am at present living a retired life at Bayreuth; in both of these towns I have made faces, that is, other people's profiles; but most of the heads which sat or stood to my scissors opined that all was not quite right in mine. Tell me the real truth of the matter; it's not altogether a matter of indifference to me, because if I should turn out not to be quite 'all there,' I should be incapable of devising my property by will, or of exercising various civil functions.