We have been out all day, in cold rain, without seeing a boar. The
King has killed twenty-five, and a wolf; and the other good posts, in
proportion.

Why not rather leave us at home, than go out with the impossibility of
sport? But we must take the good and bad, or give it up.

Lamberg is too delicate for this business; he has been in bed, with a
slight fever, all to-day.

You will have another boar, to-day; which boar being a _sow_, I have
made a _bull_! The sows are much better than the boars; so you may
keep some to eat at home, and dispose of the rest to your favourite
English.

I am glad all goes on so well. I never doubted your gaining every soul
you approach.

I am far from being angry at your feeling the loss of me so much!
Nay, I am flattered; but, believe me, the time will soon come, that we
shall meet. Years pass seemingly in an instant; why, then, afraid of a
few days?

Upon the whole, we are sociable here; but we go to bed at nine, and
get up at five o'clock. I generally read an hour, to digest my supper;
but, indeed, I live chiefly on bread and butter.

Salandra desires his compliments to you, as does Lamberg and Prince
Ausberg.