e contented ourselves with bread and a taste of
butter at home, moistened by a glass of a liquor resembling gin, seeing
that it was made of the juniper berry, which our landlord obtained for us
at about tenpence a quart. It was supposed to be smuggled from Hungary,
and Vater Bohm coloured and sweetened it with molasses, and called it
Schlipowitzer.

Our weekly outlay for food during the first month of residence in Vienna,
especially while unemployed, did not exceed five florins, _i.e._ four
shillings each. We ate bread and fruit in large quantities; indeed,
during one day my "rations" consisted of: breakfast at eight, half of a
coarse loaf and thirty plums; at twelve, one dozen pears and the other
half of the loaf; at seven a whole loaf, and forty more plums. Cost of
the whole, nine kreutzers (schein), or scarcely three halfpence in
English money. It was not surprising that I should fall ill upon this
diet, and this I accordingly did. When, however, we were in constant
work, we lived as I have already described, and at an average expense of
seven florins--five shillings and tenpence each weekly--and thus the
individual outlay for lodging, food, and other necessaries, was, in round
numbers, seven shillings and sixpence a week. A dinner on New Year's
Day, of baked pork and fried potatoes, with bread, wine, and apple puffs,
cost ninepence.

To return to the police. When my six weeks' permission of residence was
expired, I attended again at the chief office in the Stadt, with the
certificate of my employer, signed and countersigned by
police-commissioner and magistrate, and was granted thereon a further
term of three months at the same fee, two shillings; to me at that time a
day's wages. Subsequently, however, the "Herr," by means of a further
attestation, with vouchers from the landlord of the house, and the usual
official signatures, obtained for me a card of residence for six months,
gratis, and I experienced no more trouble on that head. This, and the
various other certificates, were upon stamped paper of the value of six
kreutzers, or one penny. While upon this subject I may observe, that
domestic servants must make known to the police every change of service.
They are hired by the month. Change of residence is also a matter of
official interference: a printed sheet is handed to the new lodger, with
spaces for name, age, country, religion, condition, married or single,
where last resided, and probable leng