"Here is piety!" said Rumor, carrying it to Tobacco-Parliament.

The Crown-Prince plaintively assures Grumkow that it was the Officers, and that they got punished for it.

A likely story, the Prince's! "When King Friedrich, in his old days, recounted this after dinner, in his merry tone, he was well pleased that the guests, and even the pages and valets behind his back, laughed aloud at it." Not a pious old King, Doctor, still less an orthodox one! The Doctor continues: "In a like style, at Nauen, where part of his regiment lay, he had--by means of Herr von der Groben, his First-Lieutenant," much a comrade of his, as we otherwise perceive--"the Diaconus of Nauen and his Wife hunted out of bed, and thrown into terror of their lives, one night:"-- offence of the Diaconus not specified.

"Nay he himself once pitched his gold-headed stick through Salpius the Church Inspector's window,"-- offence again not specified, or perhaps merely for a little artillery practice?
--"and the throw was so dexterous that it merely made a round hole in the glass: stick was lying on the floor; and the Prince," on some excuse or other, "sent for it next morning." "Margraf Heinrich of Schwedt," continues the Doctor, very trustworthy on points of fact, "was a diligent helper in such operations.

Kaiserling," whom we shall hear of, "First-Lieutenant von der Groben," these were prime hands; "Lieutenant Buddenbrock [old Feldmarschall's son] used, in his old days, when himself grown high in rank and dining with the King, to be appealed to as witness for the truth of these stories." [Busching, _Beitrage zu der Lebensgeschichte denkwurdiger Personen,_ v.