ICH. "'He was Major in the regiment which your Majesty had when Crown-Prince.' [Supra, vii. 403.] KING. "'Mein Gott! Is he still alive?' ICH. "'No, HE is dead; his daughter has the estate.' "We now came into the village of Barsekow, where the Manor-house is in ruins. KING. "'Hear! Is that the manor-house (EDELHOF)?' ICH. "'Ja.' KING. "'That does look miserable.' Here Mitschepfal's daughter, who has married a baronial Herr von Kriegsheim from Mecklenburg, came forward while the horses were changing. Kriegsheim came on account of her into this country: the King has given them a Colony of 200 MORGEN (acres). Coming to the carriage, Frau von Kriegsheim handed some fruit to his Majesty. His Majesty declined with thanks; asked, who her father was, when he died, &c. On a sudden, she presented her husband; began to thank for the 200 MORGEN; mounted on the coach-step; wished to kiss, if not his Majesty's hand, at least his coat. His Majesty shifted quite to the other side of the carriage, and cried"--good old Fritz!--"'Let be, my daughter, let be! It is all well!--Amtmann, let us get along (MACHT DASS WIR FORTKOMMEN)!' KING. "'Hear now: these people are not prospering here?' ICH. "'Far from it, your Majesty; they are in the greatest poverty.' KING. "'That is bad.--Tell me though; there lived a Landrath here before: he had a quantity of children: can't you recollect his name?' ICH. "'That will have been the Landrath von Gorgas of Genser.' KING. "'Ja, ja, that was he. Is he dead now?' ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty. He died in 1771: and it was very singular; in one fortnight he, his wife and four sons all died. The other four that were left had all the same sickness too, which was a hot fever; and though the sons, being in the Army, were in different garrisons, and no brother had visited the other, they all got the same illness, and came out of it with merely their life left.' KING. "'That was a desperate affair (VERZWEIFELTER UMSTAND GEWESEN)! Where are the four sons that are still in life?' ICH. "'One is in the Ziethen Hussars, one in the Gens-d'-Armes, another was in the regiment Prinz Ferdinand, and lives on the Estate Dersau. The fourth is son-in-law of Herr General von Ziethen. He was lieutenant in the Ziethen Regiment; but in the last war (POTATO-WAR, 1778), on account of his ill health, your Majesty gave him his discharge; and he now lives in Genser.' KING. "'So? That is one of the Gorgases, then!--Are you still making experiments with the foreign kinds of corn?' ICH. "'O ja; this year I have sown Spanish barley. But it will not rightly take hold; I must give it up again. However, the Holstein STOOLing-rye (STAUDENROGGEN) has answered very well.' KING. "'What kind of rye is that?' ICH. "'It grows in Holstein in the Low Grounds (NIEDERUNG). Never below the 10th grain [10 reaped for 1 sown] have I yet had it.' KING. "'Nu, nu [Ho, ho], surely not the 10th grain all at once!'