A DAY WITH FRIEDRICH.
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'Na, hear now, you can write to my Kammer [BOARD, Board-of-Works
that does NOT sit idle!], what it is that I want reclaimed to the
plough; the money for it I will give.' [TO ME] 'And you, you go to
Berlin, and explain to my Geheimer-Rath Michaelis, by word of
mouth, what it is I want reclaimed.'

"His Majesty now stept into his carriage again [was Gortz sitting
all the while, still in silence? Or had he perhaps got out at the
bottom of the hill, and sat down to a contemplative pipe of
tobacco, the smoke of which, heart-cheering to Gortz, was always
disagreeable to Friedrich? Nobody knows!]--and drove down the hill;
there the horses were changed. And now, as his Majesty's order was
that I should 'attend him to the Stollen hills,' I went up to the
carriage, and asked:--

ICH. "'Does your Majesty command that I should yet accompany
farther' ["BEFEHLEN, command," in the plural is polite, "your
Majesty, that I yet farther shall WITH"]?

KING. "'No, my son; ride, in God's name, home.'--

"The Herr Amtsrath [Klau-si-us] then accompanied his Majesty to
Rathenow, where he [THEY: His Majesty is plural] lodged in the
Post-house. At Rathenow, during dinner, his Majesty was uncommonly
cheerful: he dined with Herr Lieutenant-Colonel von Backhof of the
Carabineers, and the Herr Lieutenant-Colonel von Backhof himself
has related that his Majesty said:--

"'My good Von Backhof (MEIN LIEBER VON BACKHOF): if He [you] have
not for a long time been in the Fehrbellin neighborhood, go
there.'" Fehrbellin, the Prussian BANNOCKBURN; where the Great
Elector cut the hitherto invincible Swedes IN TWO, among the DAMS
and intricate moory quagmires, with a vastly inferior force, nearly
all of cavalry (led by one DERFLINGER, who in his apprentice time
had been a TAILOR); beat one end of them all to rags, then galloped
off and beat the other into ditto; quite taking the conceit out of
the Swedes, or at least clearing Prussia of them forever and a day:
a feat much admired by Friedrich: "'Go there,' he says.
'That region is uncommonly improved [as I saw to-day]! I have not
for a long time had such a pleasant drive. I decided on this