THE COMPLETE SHORT WORKS OF GEORG EBERS


CONTENTS:
In The Blue Pike
A Question
The Elixir
The Greylock
The Nuts




IN THE BLUE PIKE, Complete

By Georg Ebers


Volume 1.


Translated from the German by Mary T. Safford




CHAPTER I.

"May a thunderbolt strike you!" The imprecation suited the rough fellow
who uttered it. He had pointed out of doors as he spoke, and scarcely