ve been attacked
by some very unusual symptoms, to remove the cravat entirely. But he
had no sooner done this, than he stood motionless with horror, for
instead of a human skin and complexion, the neck of the young man was
covered with a dark-brown fur. The young man took some higher leaps,
grasped his hair with his gloved hands, pulled it, and, oh, wonder!
this beautiful hair was simply a wig, which he flung into the mayor's
face; and his head now appeared, covered with the same brown fur.

He jumped over tables and benches, threw down the music-stands, stamped
on the fiddles and clarionet, and appeared to have gone mad. "Catch
him! catch him!" shouted the mayor, quite beside himself. "He is out of
his senses, catch him!" That was, however, a difficult thing to do, as
the Englishman had pulled off his gloves, disclosing nails on his
fingers, with which he scratched the faces of those who attempted to
hold him. Finally an experienced hunter succeeded in holding him. He
bound his long arms down by his side so that he could only move his
feet. The people gathered round and stared at the singular young
gentleman, who no longer resembled a human being.

Just then a scientific gentleman of the neighborhood who had a large
cabinet full of specimens of natural history, and possessed all kinds
of stuffed animals, approached nearer, examined him closely, and then
exclaimed, in tones of surprise: "Good gracious! ladies and gentlemen,
how is it you bring this animal into genteel company? That is an ape,
of the _Homo Troglodytes_ species. I will give six thalers for him on
the spot, if you will let me have him, for my cabinet."

Who could describe the astonishment of the Gruenwiesel people as they
heard this! "What! an ape, an orang-outang in our society? The young
stranger a common ape?" cried they, and looked at one another in a
stupefied way. They could not believe it; they could not trust their
ears. The men examined the animal more closely, but it was beyond all
doubt a quite natural ape.

"But how is this possible," cried the mayor's wife. "Has he not often
read his poems to me? Has he not eaten at my table, just like any other
man?"

"What?" exclaimed the doctor's wife. "Has he not often drank coffee
with me, and a great deal of it? And has he not talked learnedly with
my husband, and smoked with him?"

"What! is it possible!" cried the men; "has he not bowled nine-pins
with us at the cave? and discussed politics like