I have been cast down--oh, into a frightful abyss!" "And didst thou break there thy neck ?" "I live,--and shall live longer than thou." "Almost thou seemest to me the crazy pilgrim with the dead men's bones." "I am not he, though often we are companions,--ay, walk together right near and friendly.

But to you be it said, he thinks me mad.

If sometimes I urge him, and say to him, 'Take!' then he hesitates and points upwards towards the stars.

And again, if I say, 'Take not!' then, to a certainty, he seizes on it in some awkward manner, and so he spoils my best joys and pleasures.

But, in spite of this, we remain in some measure brothers in arms, and, indeed, all but kinsmen." "Give me hold of thy hand, and let me help thee to get up." "Ho, ho! my active young sir, that might bring you no good.