the cross streets and squares, make a miserable discord of music with a small drum and fife, set their troop to dancing and leaping, and then collect what money they can at the doors of the houses. Now, the most attractive animal which these strollers had to exhibit on their present visit, was a remarkable ourang-outang, almost as large as a man, that walked on two legs, and knew how to perform a great variety of ingenious tricks. These grotesque comedians, of the dog and monkey school, came also before the house of the stranger; and at first, when the drum and fife struck up their din, he appeared, through his dim, unwashed windows, to be exceedingly annoyed; but soon after, to the surprise of every body, he looked out of a window quite amused, and laughed heartily at the feats of the ourang-outang; nay, he threw out so large a bit of silver for the entertainment he had had, that it became the talk of the whole town.

Next morning, the menagerie moved forward to another town; the camel had to carry a number of baskets, in which the dogs and monkeys were stowed away very commodiously, while the beast-trainer and the baboon followed the camel. But not many hours had passed, after their leav

ing the town, when the stranger sent to the posthouse, and, to the extreme astonishment of the post-master, requested him to order a carriage and extra post-horses to be got ready for him ; and with these he set off in the same direction in which the animals had gone. The town's people were all in a pheese of vexation, because they couldn't learn where he was journeying.

It was already night, when the stranger returned in the carriage, and drove up to the town gate; but another person was sitting by his side, who had pressed his hat hard down upon his forehead, and bound a silk handkerchief over his mouth and ears. The recorder, or clerk of the gate, considered it his duty to address the new stranger, and ask him for his pass; but he replied in a gruff and grumbling voice, while he muttered something in a language wholly unintelligible.

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'He is my nephew," said the stranger to the clerk, in a friendly tone, as he slipped some pieces of silver into his hand "he is my nephew,

and he understands but few words of German as yet; he has hardly been able, on account of our stopping him here, to keep himself from cursing us to our teeth."

"Why, if he is a nephew of yours," replied

the recorder, "he may be admitted without a pass. He will doubtless live with you."

Certainly," said the stranger; " and he will probably remain here for a long time."

The clerk of the gate making no further objection, the stranger and his nephew were admitted. The burgomaster and the whole town were much dissatisfied with the clerk. He had been so fortunate, however, as to catch two or three words of the nephew's speech; and from these he could easily ascertain of what country both he and his uncle were natives. Now, the recorder was sure that they were neither French nor Italian, but that they had much of the broad brogue of English; and if he was not mistaken, the young gentleman had blurted out the words, "G-D-!" once or twice.

In this manner the clerk got himself out of his difficulty, and helped the young man to a name; for nothing was now spoken of throughout the town but the young Englishman; and those two words were considered his name.*

* See the amusing note to Pye's Translation of Aristotle's POETIC, where he alludes to this whimsical mode of detecting an Englishman. - Trans.

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But the young Englishman was not to be seen at nine-pins, or in the beer-cellar, any more than his uncle, although in another way he gave the people business enough to do. It often happened, for instance, that such fearful screams and sounds of alarm proceeded from the stranger's house, (which was usually so still,) that crowds of people stopped before it and looked up. The young Englishman, wearing a red frock and green pantaloons, was seen, with bristling hair and a frightful look, running incredibly swift from room to room, and from window to window; the old stranger pursuing him in a red night-gown, a hunting-whip in his hand, and not seldom failing with his random strokes to hit him; but it sometimes seemed to the crowd in the street below, that he must have given the youth a genuine switching; for they caught the keen cutting of the whip, and the consequent shrieks of suffering. The females of the town took so lively an interest in this barbarous treatment of the young foreigner, that they finally moved the burgomaster to examine the matter. He wrote the stranger a billet, in which he reproved him in severe terms for his

cruel usage of his nephew, and threatened, if there should be a repetition of such scenes, to take the young gentleman under his own especial protection.

But who could be more astonished than the burgomaster, when, for the first time in ten years, he saw the stranger enter his room? The old gentleman made an apology for his conduct by mentioning the strict command of the young man's parents, who had committed him to his care to be educated; he was quite a discreet and clever lad, he said, except in his extreme slowness in learning languages; it was his strong desire, that his nephew should gain some fluency in speaking German, in order that he might take the liberty of introducing him to the society of Grünwiesel; and so great was his difficulty, his obstinate stupidity rather, in mastering the language, that he judged he could do nothing better for him, than give him now and then the wholesome discipline of the whip.

The burgomaster was perfectly satisfied with this communication: he advised the old man to be more gentle in his discipline, and told his friends at the alehouse in the evening, that he had seldom met with a man so agreeable and well-informed as the stranger. "It is a thousand