CHAPTER XVI. The Homeward Journey, with all its Pleasures--The Arrival at Home. CHAPTER XVII. The Butterfly Rosa in the Form of Mining Caterpillar--Thorn-crowns, and Thistle-heads of Jealousy. CHAPTER XVIII. After-Summer of Marriage--Preparations for Death. CHAPTER XIX. The Apparition--Homecoming of the Storms in August, or the last Quarrel--The Raiment of the Children of Israel. CHAPTER XX. Apoplexy--The President of the Board of Health--The Notary-Public-- The last Will and Testament--The Knight's Move--Revel, the Morning Preacher--The Second Apoplectic Attack. CHAPTER XXI. Dr. [Oe]lhafen and Medical Boot and Shoemaking--The Burial Society-- A Death's Head in the Saddle--Frederick II. and his Funeral Oration. CHAPTER XXII. Journey through Fantaisie--Re-union on the Bindlocher Mountain-- Berneck--Man-doubling--Gefrees--Exchange of Clothes--Münchberg-- Solo-whistling--Hof--The Stone of Gladness and Double-parting. CHAPTER XXIII. Days in Vaduz--Nathalie's Letter--A New Year's Wish--Wilderness of Destiny and the Heart. CHAPTER XXIV. News from Kuhschnappel--Woman's Anticlimax--Opening of the Seventh Seal. CHAPTER XXV., AND LAST. The Journey--The Churchyard--The Spectre--The End of the Trouble, and of the Book. PREFACE, WITH WHICH I WAS OBLIGED TO PUT JACOB OEHRMANN, GENERAL DEALER, TO SLEEP, BECAUSE I WISHED TO NARRATE THE "DOG POST DAYS"[4] AND THESE PRESENT "FLOWER-PIECES," &C., &C., TO HIS DAUGHTER.