ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty, it is very good that the tenant have
money; but he becomes mutinous too, as the tenants hereabouts do,
who have seven times over complained to your Majesty against me, to
get rid of the HOFDIENST,' stated work due from them.

KING. "'They will have had some cause too!'

ICH. "'Your Majesty will graciously pardon: there was an
investigation gone into, and it was found that I had not oppressed
the tenants, but had always gone upon my right, and merely held
them to do their duty. Nevertheless the matter stood as it was:
the tenants are not punished; your Majesty puts always the tenants
in the right, the poor Beamte is always in the wrong!'

KING. "'Ja: that you, my son, will contrive to get justice, you, I
cannot but believe! You will send your Departmentsrath [Judge of
these affairs] such pretty gifts of butter, capons, poults!'

ICH. "'No, your Majesty, we cannot. Corn brings no price: if one
did not turn a penny with other things, how could one raise the
rent at all?'

KING. "'Where do you send your butter, capons and poults (PUTER)
for sale?'

ICH. "'To Berlin.'

KING. "'Why not to Ruppin?'

ICH. "'Most of the Ruppin people keep cows, as many as are needed