loss in breeding horses. I know a man who got, two years ago, 1,000
thalers for a stallion of his raising.'

KING. "'He must have been a fool that gave it.'

ICH. "'Your Majesty, he was a Mecklenburg nobleman.'

KING. "'But nevertheless a fool.'

"We now came upon the territory of the Amt Neustadt; and here the
Amtsrath Klausius, who has the Amt in farm, was in waiting on the
boundary, and let his Majesty drive past. But as I began to get
tired of the speaking, and his Majesty went on always asking about
villages, which stand hereabouts in great quantity, and I had
always to name the owner, and say what sons he had in the Army,--I
brought up Herr Amtsrath Klausius to the carriage, and said:--

ICH. "'Your Majesty, this is the Amtsrath Klausius, of the Amt
Neustadt, in whose jurisdiction the Colonies are.'

KING. "'So, so! that is very good (DAS IST MIR LIEB).
Bring him up.'

KING. "'What's your name?' (from this point the King spoke mostly
with Amtsrath Klausius, and I only wrote down what I heard).

KL. "'Klausius.'

KING. "'Klau-si-us. Na, have you many cattle here on the Colonies?'