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as drowned, he appeared, and reported having lost a 

 huchcn, a good one, on natural bait. 



That evening G. was introduced to the society at 

 the Post. The men were a fine-looking lot. There 

 was only one lady, and she was fine-looking too. 

 The landlord had a particularly handsome face. He 

 was a silent, unemotional individual, who drank his 

 own good beer all day long and all night long with 

 his friends and guests, but never seemed the worse 

 for it ; and his eye and skin were as clear as if he 

 were dieted regularly for the Oxford and Cambridge 

 boat-race. Then there was a burly baron, such as 

 one reads of in books, clad in the green-trimmed 

 garments in which sporting Germans take delight. 

 Also the doctor, the inspector of taxes, the school- 

 master, a retired priest, an artist, an individual who 

 acted as paymaster to the duke, and a lieutenant 

 of a cavalry regiment from Munich. This officer 

 had married the landlord's sister, and though we 

 mention her last she deserves the first place, for 

 she had a beautiful face, and a stature and figure 

 verging on the gigantic. A few years ago there 

 can have been few women between Lcnggries and 

 Munich whom that Frau Lieutenant need have 

 looked on as rivals in good looks. This couple had 

 a daughter called Josephine ; and G. being the for- 

 tunate possessor of a very long Pharaoh's serpent 

 cut iii horn, and living in a carved bone box, gave 

 it to her, and won her small heart. All these people, 



