"
they cried. "Halloo!" we answered, shouting in unison as we approached
each other. When we met, a little friendly skirmish with our sticks was
the first act of greeting. A storm of questions and replies then
followed. We all knew each other in a few minutes; carpenters, turners,
glovers were there,--not a jeweller among them but myself. We parted
soon, for time was precious. "Love to Berlin," cried one of them back to
us. "My compliments to Hamburg," I replied; and then we all struck up an
amatory chorus of the "Fare thee well, love" species, that fitted
properly with our position.

Continuing upon our way we found our lame companion smoking a pipe
comfortably outside the village inn at Warnow. His cart was resting
there for bait to man and horse. We baited also and discussed black
bread-and-butter, and Berlin white beer, till the cart carried away our
moustachioed friend, never again, perhaps, to meet us in this world, and
not likely to be recognised by his moustachios in the other.

My chalky comrade, who was also very lame, lay on the ground in a
desperate condition before the day was over, and it was with some
difficulty that I brought him safe by nightfall into Wusterhausen. He
had become also mysterious, and evidently inquisitive as to the state of
my finances, exhibiting on his own part hasty glimpses of a brass medal
wrapped up in fine wool, which he wished me to look upon as a double
ducat. When we got to the inn-door, my friend made a hurried proposition
very nervously, which made his purpose clear. There were sixty English
miles of road between us and Berlin; he was knocked up, and a fast coach,
or rumbling omnibus, accommodating six insides, would start for Berlin in
the morning. He thought he could bargain with the coachman to take us to
Berlin for a dollar--three shillings--a piece, if I did not mind
advancing his fare, because he did not want to change the double ducat
until he got home. I put no difficulty in his way, for he was a good
fellow, and moreover would be well able to help me in return, by telling
me the addresses of some people I depended upon finding in Berlin. He
proceeded, therefore, into the agonies of bargaining, and was not
disappointed in his expectation. At the price of a dollar a-piece we
were packed next morning in a frowsy vehicle, tainted with much
tobacco-smoke, to which he came with his swollen feet pressed only
half-way down into the legs of his best Wellingto