[Nicolai, _Anekdoten,_ iv.

34.] Lucchesi, on the other hand, scanning those Borne Hills, and the cavalry of Friedrich's escort twinkling hither and thither on them, becomes convinced to a moral certainty, That yonder is the Prussian Vanguard, probable extremity of left wing; and that he, Lucchesi, here at Nypern, is to be attacked.

"Attacked, you ?" said one Montazet, French Agent or Emissary here: "unless they were snipes, it is impossible!" But Lucchesi saw it too well.
He sends to say that such is the evident fact, and that he, Lucchesi, is not equal to it, but must have large reinforcement of Horse to his right wing.

"Tush!" answer Prince Karl and Daun; and return only argument, verbal consolation, to distressed Lucchesi.

Lucchesi sends a second message, more passionately pressing, to the like effect; also with the like return.