"ACH KINDER, Alas, children, you are badly wounded, then ?" "JA, your Majesty: but how goes the Battle ?" (Answer, evasive on this point): "Are you bandaged, though?
Have you been let blood ?" "NEIN, EUER MAJESTAT, KEIN TEUFEL WILL UNS VERBINDEN (Not a devil of them would bandage us)!" Upon which there is a Surgeon instantly brought; reprimanded for neglect: "Desperate, say you?
These are young fellows; feel that hand, and that; no fever there: Nature in such cases does wonders!" Upon which the leech had to perform his function; and the poor young fellows were saved,--and did new fighting, and got new wounds, and had Pensions when the War ended.

[Kriele, pp.
169, 170; and in all the Anecdote-Books.] This appears to have been Friedrich's first work in that hut at OEtscher.

Here next is a Third Autograph to Finkenstein, written in that hut, probably the first of several Official things there:-- THE KING TO GRAF VAN FINKENSTEIN (at Berlin): Third Note.
OETSCHER, "12th August," 1759.
"I attacked the Enemy this morning about eleven; we beat him back to the JUDENKIRCHHOF (Jew Churchyard,"-- a mistake, but now of no moment), "near Frankfurt.

All my troops came into action, and have done wonders.

I reassembled them three times; at length, I was myself nearly taken prisoner; and we had to quit the Field.