s a recruit.]

[Footnote 6: Joseph; Joe.]

[Footnote 7: The name of a tract of ground. All the lands belonging to
a village are divided into such tracts, every tract having particular
qualifications. These are subdivided, and the subdivisions distributed
among the farmers: in this manner every farmer has a portion of every
kind of ground belonging to the farm-manor.]

[Footnote 8: If the American reader is tempted to doubt or to contemn
this stretch of economy, he must remember the different standards
governing the people of the Old and the New World in this respect.]

[Footnote 9: Clotho holds the distaff, Lachesis spins the thread, and
Atropos severs it.]

[Footnote 10: Black Forest provincialism:--a scamp, a loafer.]

[Footnote 11: Suabian.]

[Footnote 12: Brother.]

[Footnote 13: Son of God.]

[Footnote 14: What temptation a counterfeit wild cat holds out to the
traveller to sit down upon it, the translator is not in a condition to
explain,--probably on instance of the matter-of-fact character of the
American mind.]

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