lidays. As
I improved in the practice of my new branch of business, I gained
additions to my wages, till I received nine gulden, eighteen shillings, a
week; a sum certainly much above the average pay.

Alcibiade and I lodged in a narrow slip of a room, the last of a suite of
three, on the first floor of a house, or rather conglomerate of houses,
in the Neudegger Gasse, Josephstadt. Our landlord was a worthy Bohemian
cabinet-maker; his wife, a Viennese, who kept everything in the neatest
order. I do not know how many families lived in this house; but it was a
huge parallelogram with a paved courtyard, in the centre of which stood a
wooden pump. There was a common stair in each corner, all of stone, and
a common closet at the bottom of each staircase, equally of stone, seat
and all, and very common indeed. Each lodging consisted of three
continuous rooms, with only one entrance from the common stair: first was
the kitchen, with cooking apparatus, and the oven, which warmed the whole
suite; then a larger room with two windows, at once workshop,
dining-room, and bed-room; and beyond this the narrow closet with one
window, which was our dormitory. Thus we had to pass through our
landlord's bed-room to get to our own. The other portions of the
building were arranged much in the same manner, and the house must have
had, in all, at least a hundred inhabitants. There are much larger
houses in the suburbs of Vienna, but they are all built upon the same
principle, with trifling modifications. Here are two cards of address,
which are models of exactness in their way, and will illustrate the
nature of these barracks in the best possible manner:

"JOSEPH UBERLACHNER,
Master Tailor,

Lives in the Wieden, in the Lumpertsgasse, next to the Suspension
bridge, No. 831, the left hand staircase on the second floor, door
No. 31."

"MARTIN SPIES,
Men's Tailor,

Lives in Neubau, Stuckgosse, No 149, in the courtyard, the right hand
staircase, on the second floor, door on the left hand."

The entrance to our house from the street was small and unimportant, and,
as may naturally be supposed, always open. The law was, however, strict
upon this subject, and permitted the house to be open in summer from five
in the morning till ten o'clock at night only; in winter from seven till
nine. The