er objections to make, so the strange
gentleman and his nephew drove into the town. The mayor and citizens,
however, were not very well pleased with the action of the gate-keeper.
He might at least have taken notice of a few words of the nephew's
dialect, so that thereby it might have been easily ascertained from
what country he and his uncle originally came. On this the gate-keeper
asserted that his dialect was neither French nor Italian, but it
sounded broad enough to be English.

Thus did the gate-keeper help himself out of disgrace, and at the same
time supply the young man with a name. For every body now was talking
about the young Englishman.

But, like his uncle, the young Englishman did not show himself either
at the bowling alley or the beer table; but yet he gave the people much
to busy themselves about in another way. For instance, it often
happened that, in the formerly quiet house of the strange gentleman,
such fearful cries and noises were heard, that the people would crowd
together before the house and look up at the windows. They would then
see the young Englishman, clad in a red coat and green knee-breeches,
with bristly hair, and a frightened expression, run by the windows, and
through all the rooms, with inconceivable rapidity, chased by his
uncle, wearing a red dressing-gown, with a hunting whip in his hand; he
often missed hitting him, but after a time the crowd felt sure that the
young man had been caught, as the most pitiable cries and whip-lashings
were heard. The ladies of the town now felt such a lively sympathy for
the young man who was treated so cruelly that they finally prevailed on
the mayor to take some steps in the matter. He wrote the strange
gentleman a note, in which he expressed his opinion very emphatically
about the way the young Englishman had been treated, and threatened
that if any more such scenes occurred he would take the young man under
his own protection.

But who could have been more astonished than was the mayor, when, for
the first time in ten years, he saw the strange gentleman enter his
house! The old gentleman excused his conduct, on the ground that it was
in accordance with the expressed charge of the young man's parents, who
had sent their son to him to be educated. This youth was in other
respects wise and forward for his years, but he did not learn languages
easily; and he was very anxious to teach his nephew to speak German
fluently, that he might take the lib