'Gretchen, the housewife, won like Desdemona by the deeds rather than the looks of her now veteran Othello, lived not in altogether military subordination for, as Andreas said, "the womankind will not drill ( wer kann die Weiberchen dres siren)": nevertheless she at heart loved him both for valour and wisdom to her a Prussian grenadier Sergeant and Regiment's Schoolmaster was little other than a Cicero and Cid: what you see, yet cannot see over, is as good as infinite. " Das nenn' ich mir einen König, There is what I call a King," would Andreas exclaim: "but the smoke of Kunersdorf was still smarting his eyes." Fruits, the peach, the apple, the grape, with other varieties came in their season all which Andreas knew how to sell: on evenings he smoked largely, or read (as beseemed a regimental Schoolmaster), and talked to neighbours that would listen about the Victory of Rossbach and how Fritz the Only ( der Einzige) had once with his own royal lips spoken to him, had been pleased to say, when Andreas as camp-sentinel demanded the pass-word, "Schweig' Hund (Peace, hound)!" before any of his staff-adjutants could answer. Andreas had been grenadier Sergeant, and even regimental Schoolmaster under Frederick the Great but now, quitting the halbert and ferule for the spade and pruning-hook, cultivated a little Orchard, on the produce of which he, Cincinnatus-like, lived not without dignity. 'In the village of Entepfuhl,' thus writes he, in the Bag Libra, on various Papers, which we arrange with difficulty, 'dwelt Andreas Futteral and his wife childless, in still seclusion, and cheerful though now verging towards old age. Unhappily, indeed, he seems to be of quite obscure extraction uncertain, we might almost say, whether of any: so that this Genesis of his can properly be nothing but an Exodus (or transit out of Invisibility into Visibility) whereof the preliminary portion is nowhere forthcoming. ![]() To the Genesis of our Clothes -Philosopher, then, be this First Chapter consecrated. we rest not till, for our scientific profit or not, the whole circumstances of his first appearance in this Planet, and what manner of Public Entry he made, are with utmost completeness rendered manifest. Nevertheless, as in every phenomenon the Beginning remains always the most notable moment so, with regard to any great man. In a psychological point of view, it is perhaps questionable whether from birth and genealogy, how closely scrutinised soever, much insight is to be gained.
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