My Israelite only interrupted me by exclamations indicative of surprise, assent, admiration, and increasing conviction.

"Prodigious!" said he;--"Wunderschon!" would he remark at the conclusion of some eloquent passage; in a word, he exhausted the complimentary interjections of our language: and to compliments what man is averse?
I think we must have walked two miles when I got to my third head and my companion begged I would enter his house, which we now neared, and partake of a glass of beer; to which I was never averse.
'That house, sir, was the inn at which you, too, if I judge aright, were taken.

No sooner was I in the place, than three crimps rushed upon me, told me I was a deserter, and their prisoner, and called upon me to deliver up my money and papers; which I did with a solemn protest as to my sacred character.

They consisted of my sermon in MS., Prorector Nasenbrumm's recommendatory letter, proving my identity, and three groschen four pfennigs in bullion.

I had already been in the cart twenty hours when you reached the house.