A DAY WITH FRIEDRICH.
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said his Majesty: 'Stay he there where he is; I know him. He is the
Landrath von Quast!'["Very good indeed, old Vater Fritz; let him
stand there in his white coat, a fat, sufficiently honored man!--
Chodowiecki has an engraving of this incident;--I saw IT at the
British Museum once, where they have only seven others on Friedrich
altogether, all in one poor GOTHA ALMANAC; very small, very coarse,
but very good: this Quast (Anglice 'Tassel') was one of them"
(MARGINALE OF 1862).]

"They had now yoked the horses. His Majesty took a very tender
leave of old General von Ziethen, waved an adieu to those about,
and drove on. Although his Majesty at Protzen would not take any
fruit, yet when once we were out of the village, his Majesty took a
luncheon from the carriage-pocket for himself and the Herr General
Graf von Gortz, and, all along, during the drive, ate apricots
(IMMER PFIRSCHE).

At starting, his Majesty had fancied I was to stop here, and called
out of the carriage: 'Amtmann, come along with us!'

KING. "'Where is the Beamte of Alt-Ruppin?'

ICH. "'Apparently he must be unwell; otherwise he would have been
in Protzen at the change of horses there' ["at the VORSPANN:" Yes;
--and Manor-house, EDELHOF, where old Ziethen waited, was lower
down the street, and SOONER than the Post-house?]

KING. "'Na, tell me now, don't you really know why that Kleist at
Protzen took his discharge?' [VOILA!]

ICH. "'No, your Majesty, I really do not.'

KING. "'What village is this before us?'

ICH. "'Manker.'

KING. "'And whose?'

ICH. "'Yours, your Majesty, in the AMT Alt-Ruppin.'

KING (looking round on the harvest-fields). "'Here you, now:
how are you content with the harvest?'

ICH. "'Very well, your Majesty.'

KING. "'Very well? And to me they said, Very ill!'

ICH. "'Your Majesty, the winter-crop was somewhat frost-nipt;
but the summer-crop in return is so abundant it will richly make up
for the winter-crop.' His Majesty now looked round upon the fields,
shock standing upon shock.

KING. "'It is a good harvest, you are right; shock stands close by
shock here!'

ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty; and the people here make STEIGS (mounts)