He had a little rod, with which he kept order among them, and shoved the best bits to his favorites.

The Marquis, in astonishment, recoiled a step, struck his hands together, and exclaimed: 'The Five Great Powers of Europe, who have sworn alliance, and conspired to undo the Marquis de Brandebourg, how might they puzzle their heads to guess what he is now doing! Scheming some dangerous plan for the next Campaign, think they; collecting funds to have money for it; studying about magazines for man and horse; or he is deep in negotiations to divide his enemies, and get new allies for himself?
Not a bit of all that.

He is sitting peaceably in his room, and feeding his dogs!'" [Preuss, ii.

282.] INTERVIEW WITH HERR PROFESSOR GELLERT (Thursday, 18th December, 1760).
Still more celebrated is the Interview with Gellert; though I cannot say it is now more entertaining to the ingenuous mind.

One of Friedrich's many Interviews, this Winter, with the Learned of Leipzig University; for he is a born friend of the Muses so called, and never neglects an opportunity.