ol6 Ten Years of my Life. 



the King, who bad seen ipe, stopped the carriage and des- 

 cended. He came towards me, grasped my hand, and said 

 very kind words which I shall never forget. Smilingly look- 

 ing around me to discover the cause of my embarrassment he 

 saw my two pails, and when I told him that I had stolen them 

 from his kitchen for his dying brave soldiers, the expression of 

 his face became still kinder, and he said that I had done quite 

 right, and that I was at liberty to rob his kitchen to my heart's 

 content. 



On August 12 Dr. Busch and mvself drove to the convent 

 of Neudorf, where thirty severely wounded men w^re nursed 

 by the nuns, w^ho gave me a long list of things required. I 

 sent them next day forty mattresses and a whole waggonful of 

 provisions. 



When we went again to Neudorf Professor Eusch made some 

 operations, in which he was assisted by some Wurtembergian 

 medical students, who were however not sufficiently used to 

 the horrors they saw around them ; for when one of them as- 

 sisted the Professor in the resection of an elbow, his hand 

 trembled so much that Dr. Busch put him impatiently aside, 

 and requested me to assist him, which I did with a steady hand 

 and to his satisfoction. 



Thus I was busy from the morning to the night and Miss 

 Runkel assisted me faithfully. We went several times to 

 Spichern, where we tound the French wounded lying on straw 

 sacks placed on the ground in stal)les, which made us very 

 angry with the doctors, who had been too lazy to send to 

 Saarbrucken for bedsteads. Dr. Busch took care that thev 

 were sent. 



To the many wounded were soon added a number of sol- 

 diers suftering from a dangerous dysentery, of which many died 

 in a few hours. 



This malady seems always to prevail in armies in the field, 

 and we had it also in America. 



I had caught a very severe cold and had to remain two days 

 in bed with a very painful swollen face, which made me very 

 impatient as it prevented me from attending to my duty. 

 'J'hough there was plenty for me to do everywhere, the longing 

 to go nearer to the front, in order to be nearer to Felix, be- 

 came so strong that I made up my mind to go alone, if Profes- 

 sor Busch should be retained much longer in Saarbrucken. I 



