Thief-keys were made to pattern in Berlin; first set did not fit, second did; and stealthy Menzel gains admittance to that Chamber of the Archives, can steal thither on shoes of felt when occasion serves, and copy what you wish,--for a consideration.

Intermittently, since about Easter-Fair, 1753.

Three persons are cognizant of it, Winterfeld, Mahlzahn, Friedrich; three, and no more.

Probably the abstrusest study; and the most intense, going on in the world at that epoch.

[Rotzow, _Charakteristik des Siebenjahrigen Krieges _( Berlin, 1802), i.