from the water; that will be six-and-thirty colonists, allowing
each 50 acres. And now if there were a small light toll put upon
the raft-timber and the ships that will frequent the new canal,
there would be ample interest for the outlay.'

KING. "'Na, tell my Geheimer-Rath Michaelis of it. The man
understands that kind of matters; and I will advise you to apply to
the man in every particular of such things, and wherever you know
that colonists can be settled. I don't want whole colonies at once;
but wherever there are two or three families of them, I say apply
to that man about it.'

ICH. "'It shall he done, your Majesty.'

KING. "'Can't I see Wusterau,' where old Ajax Ziethen lives,
'from here?'

ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty; there to the right, that is it.'
It BELONGS to General von Ziethen; and terrible BUILDING he has had
here,--almost all his life!

KING. "'Is the General at home?'

ICH. "'Ja.'

KING. "'How do you know?'

ICH. "'Your Majesty, the Rittmeister von Lestock lies in my village
on GRAZING service; and last night the Herr General sent a letter
over to him by a groom. In that way I know it.'