pence];" "Two Boxes of Colors,
sixteen ditto;" "For a live snipe, twopence;" "For grinding the hanger
[little swordkin];" "To a Boy whom the dog bit;" and chiefly of all,
"To the KLINGBEUTEL,"--Collection-plate, or bag, at Church,--which comes
upon us once, nay twice, and even thrice a week, eighteenpence each
time, and eats deep into our straitened means. [Preuss, i. 17.]

On such terms can a little Fritz be nourished into a Friedrich
the Great; while irrational man-mountains, of the beaverish or
beaverish-vulpine sort, take such a price to fatten them into
monstrosity! The Art-manufacture of your Friedrich can come very cheap,
it would appear, if once Nature have done her part in regard to him, and
there be mere honest will on the part of the by-standers. Thus Samuel
Johnson, too, cost next to nothing in the way of board and entertainment
in this world. And a Robert Burns, remarkable modern Thor, a Peasant-god
of these sunk ages, with a touch of melodious RUNES in him (since all
else lay under ban for the poor fellow), was raised on frugal oatmeal,
at an expense of perhaps half a crown a week. Nuggets and ducats are
divine; but they are not the most divine. I often wish the Devil had the
lion's share of them,--at once, and not circuitously as now. It would be
an unspeakable advantage to the bewildered sons of Adam, in this epoch!

But with regard to our little Crown-Prince's intellectual culture,
there is another Document, specially from Papa's hand, which, if we can
redact, adjust and abridge it, as in the former case, may be worth
the reader's notice, and elucidate some things for him. It is of date,
Wusterhausen, 3d September, 1721; little Fritz now in his tenth
year, and out there, with his Duhans and Finkensteins, while Papa is
rusticating for a few weeks. The essential title is, or might be:--

_To Head-Governor van Finkenstein, Sub-Governor von Kalkstein,
Preceptor Jacques Egide Duhan de Jandun, and others whom it may concern:
Regulations for schooling, at Wusterhausen, 3d September, 1721;_
[Preuss, i. 19.]--in greatly abridged form.

SUNDAY. "On Sunday he is to rise at 7; and as soon as he has got his
slippers on, shall kneel down at his bedside, and pray to God, so as
all in the room may hear it [that there be no deception or short measure
palmed upon us], in these words: 'Lord God, blessed Father, I thank thee
from my heart that thou hast so graciously preserved me through this
night. Fit me for what th