on singular, _Du_; but
of all modes of speech the third person singular, _Er_, when applied to
the person addressed, is the most opprobrious. A police official thus
interrogates a wandering workman:--

"What is he?" "A currier."

"Where from?" "Siegesdorf."

"Where to?" "Ulm."

"Has he got the itch?" "No."

"Then let him sign this book."

At Augsburg the police were in a dilemma with respect to us. We had come
by rail from Munich, and, to our surprise, were suffered to pass through
the gate unchallenged by the sentinel, who paced leisurely before the
guard-house. The following morning, on presenting our papers at the
police-bureau, we were met with the accusation of having smuggled
ourselves into the city; and, as the usual official routine had been
departed from, we were ordered to proceed at once to the gates, and
humbly deliver up our passports to the sentinel in due form, that the
requirements of the law might be fulfilled. This sage proposition was,
however, overruled in consideration of our being jewellers: the
respectability of the craft being thus acknowledged. It was in Augsburg
also that I narrowly escaped being entered in the books of the Guild as
"Mr. Great Britain, native of London;" the slim apprentice whose duty it
was to make the entry, having mistaken the name of the country for that
of the individual in my English passport.

I may not omit to mention, although I do it with a feeling of
humiliation, that during our journey we availed ourselves of whatever
assistance was granted by the Guild to "wandering boys" unable to obtain
employment. We had a perfect right to this aid, and had, while in work,
always contributed to the fund (in which we had, indeed, no option); but
I must confess that there was something exceedingly like asking for alms
in the whole process of obtaining it. Our slender resources must plead
as an excuse. The following were our individual receipts: in Linz,
twenty-four kreutzers; in Munich, thirty-six; Augsburg, eighteen; Ulm,
fifteen; Stutgard, thirty; Heilbron, twenty-four; Heidelberg, nine,
(begged from shop to shop, there being no general cash-box); and
Carlsruhe, twenty-four; making a total of one hundred and eighty
kreutzers, or the munificent sum of two shillings and sixpence in English
money. What must be the fate of those whose dependence was upon such a
pittance!

I had passed two whole years and a few days in Germany, and during a
period of eighty-ei