KING. "'That is well. Have your tenants, too, more cattle
than formerly?'

ICH. "'Ja!'

KING. "'How many more?'

ICH. "'Many have one cow, many two, according as their
means admit.'

KING. "'But how many more have they in all? About how many,
that is?'

ICH. "'About 150 head.'

"His Majesty must lately have asked the Herr General von Gortz, how
I came to know him,--as I told his Majesty to ask General von Gortz
about the Holstein rye;--and presumably the Herr General must have
answered, what was the fact, That he had first known me in
Holstein, where I dealt in horses, and that I had been at Potsdam
with horses. Suddenly his Majesty said: 'Hear! I know you are fond
of horses. But give up that, and prefer cows; you will find your
account better there.'

ICH. "'Your Majesty, I no longer deal in horses. I merely rear a
few foals every year.'

KING. "'Rear calves instead; that will be better.'

ICH. "'Oh, your Majesty, if one takes pains with it, there is no