"SATURDAY, forenoon till half-past 10, come History, Writing and
Ciphering; especially repetition of what was done through the week,
and in MORALITY as well [adds the rapid Majesty], to see whether he has
profited. And General Graf von Finkenstein, with Colonel von Kalkstein,
shall be present during this. If Fritz has profited, the afternoon shall
be his own. If he has not profited, he shall, from 2 to 6, repeat
and learn rightly what he has forgotten on the past days." And so the
laboring week winds itself up. Here, however, is one general rule which
cannot be too much impressed upon YOU, with which we conclude:--

"In undressing and dressing, you must accustom him to get out of, and
into, his clothes as fast as is humanly possible (_ hurtig so viel als
menschenmoglich ist_). You will also look that he learn to put on and
put off his clothes himself, without help from others; and that he be
clean and neat, and not so dirty (_nicht so schmutzig_)." "Not so
dirty," that is my last word; and here is my sign-manual,

"FRIEDRICH WILHELM." [Preuss, i. 21.]

Chapter IX. -- WUSTERHAUSEN.

Wusterhausen, where for the present these operations go on, lies about
twenty English miles southeast of Berlin, as you go towards Schlesien
(Silesia);--on the old Silesian road, in a flat moory country made of
peat and sand;--and is not distinguished for its beauty at all among
royal Hunting-lodges. The Gohrde at Hanover, for example, what a
splendor there in comparison! But it serves Friedrich Wilhelm's simple
purposes: there is game abundant in the scraggy woodlands, otter-pools,
fish-pools, and miry thickets, of that old "Schenkenland" (belonged all
once to the "SCHENKEN Family," till old King Friedrich bought it for
his Prince); retinue sufficient find nooks for lodgment in the poor old
Schloss so called; and Noltenius and Panzendorf drive out each once a
week, in some light vehicle, to drill Fritz in his religious exercises.

One Zollner, a Tourist to Silesia, confesses himself rather pleased
to find even Wusterhausen in such a country of sandy bent-grass, lean
cattle, and flat desolate languor.

"Getting to the top of the ridge" (most insignificant "ridge," made by
hand; Wilhelmina satirically says), Tourist Zollner can discern with
pleasure "a considerable Brook,"--visible, not audible, smooth Stream,
or chain of meres and lakelets, flowing languidly northward towards
Kopenik. Inaudible big Brook or Stream; which, we perce