Nor should I have been dissatisfied with the fate of Robinson Crusoe.
The Christmas exhibition at Fuchs's, Unter den Linden, was merely entertaining--Berlin jokes in pictures mainly of a political or satirical order.

Most distinctly of all I remember the sentimental lady of rank who orders her servant to catch a fly on a tea-tray and put it carefully out of the window.

The obedient Thomas gets hold of the insect, takes it to the window, and with the remark, "Your ladyship, it is pouring, the poor thing might take cold," brings it back again to the tea-tray.
There was plenty of such entertainment in winter, and we had our part in much of it.

Rellstab, the well-known editor of Voss's journal, made a clever collection of such jokes in his Christmas Wanderings.

We could read, and whatever was offered by that literary St.Nicholas and highly respected musical critic for cultivated Berlin our mother was quite willing we should enjoy..