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till our names were called, had apparently caused 

 our loss of the carnage which had been booked 

 in our .name. 



' The worthy Burgomaster's countenance fell ; 

 he raised his hands in deprecatory fashion, and 

 declared it was all the fault of those " Fran- 

 zosische ; " that they had violently appropriated to 

 themselves vehicles in waiting in the Square, and 

 that the order of "call" had been compulsorily 

 suspended ; that every wheeled vehicle which 

 Freiburg and its vicinity could contribute to the 

 excursion was now occupied and on its way to 

 Baden-Weiler. Outside the portal was a gentle- 

 man on horseback, mopping his face in the hot 

 sunshine ; he had acted officially in guiding the 

 parties and starting their respective vehicles. 

 This duty was appropriately volunteered and 

 discharged, under unlooked-for difficulties, by the 

 Professor of Obstetrics of the Freiburg Uni- 

 versity. 



• My friend mildly remarked that the con- 

 sequence of our proper behaviour was more es- 

 pecially to be regretted, since his friend and him- 

 self were professors who had travelled from the 

 greatest distances to attend the meeting — Pro- 

 fessor O. from Newcastle, North of England, and 

 himself from Copenhagen. 



' Then ensued an animated discussion between 

 the Freiburg Professor and the Burgomaster, 

 which issued in the Professor putting spurs to his 



