Twice, or oftener, Lefebvre, a zealous creature but a thin-skinned, flew out into open paroxysm; wept, invoked the gods, threatened suicide: so that Friedrich had to console him, "Courage, you will manage it; make chicanes on Gribeauval, as he does on you,"-- and suggested that powder-SACK instead of deal-box, which we just mentioned.
Friedrich's patience seems to have been great; but in the end he began to think the time long.

He was in three successive head-quarters, Dittmannsdorf, Peterswaldau, Bogendorf, nearer and nearer; at length quite near (Bogendorf within a couple of miles); and wondering Gazetteers reported him on horseback, examining minutely the parallels and siege-works,--with a singular indifference to the cannon-balls flying about ("Not easy to hit a small object with cannon!"), and intent only on giving Tauentzien suggestions, admonitions and new orders.

Here, prior to Bogendorf, are three snatches of writing, which successively have indications for us.

KING TO PRINCE HENRI:-- PETERSWALDAU, AUGUST 13th, 1762 (King has just shifted hither, August 10th, on the Bevern-REICHENBACH score; continues here till September 23d)....

"You are right to say, 'We ourselves are our best Allies.' I am of the same opinion; nevertheless, it is a clear duty and call of prudence to try and alleviate the burden as much as possible: and I own to you, that if, after all I have written, the thing fails this time [as it does], I shall be obliged to grant MAP GOES HERE--FACING PAGE 152, CHAP XII, BOOK 20---- that there is nothing to be made of those Turks."-- "We are now in the press of our crisis as to Schweidnitz.