When the room was emptied, the first of Eymann's members to wake up--he still stood in the sentry-box of the priest's frock--was the index-finger, which stretched itself out, and pointed out to the family-circle the bed. "It would have been more satisfactory and serviceable to me," said he, "to have been strangled to death with that rag, than to have had his _Serenissimus_ spy it out." He meant, however, his own soiled cravat, which he himself had thrown upon the nuptial bed,--that art-chamber and wareroom of his linen. Whenever one contradicted any tormenting notion of his, he argued it so long that at last he believed it himself; but if one admitted it, then he conjured up certain scruples, and adopted a different opinion. "His Highness must inevitably have seen the tattered thing through the bed-curtains," he replied. Finally he travelled over all the places where January had stood, and took observations at the torn neck-tie, and investigated its parallax. "We must adhere to the _blinding_ of the windows, if we want to have any _peace_," he concluded, and-- So do I. P. S. I shall always remark after an eighth chapter (because I get ready exactly two Dog-post-days in a week), that I have again worked for the space of a month. I therefore report that to-morrow June comes on. FIRST INTERCALARY DAY. Must Treaties be kept, or is it enough that they are made? The latter.--To-day the mining-superintendent exercises, for the first time, on the reader's ground and soil the right (_servitus oneris ferendi_, or I may say _servitus projiciendi_) which, according to the contract of May 4, he actually possesses. The main question now is, whether a dog-contract between two such great powers--inasmuch as the reader has all the quarters of the world, and I, in turn, have the reader--must, after being concluded, also be kept. Frederick, the Antimachiavellist, answers us, and backs himself by Machiavelli: Certainly every one of us must keep his word so long as it--is for his advantage. So true is this, that such treaties would never be broken, if they were not once--concluded; and the Swiss, who, as late as 1715, swore one with France, might quite as well in all the Cantons have lifted their fingers and taken an oath they would every day regularly--make water. But so soon as the advantage of contracts ceases, then is a regent entitled to break them in two cases,--those which he makes with other regents, and those he makes with his own step-children of the country,--his subjects.