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than the Newcastle men, and time passed pretty 

 quickly there. . . . We left Freiburg Monday 

 (yesterday) at noon . . . No dinner was to be had 

 on the road, so I offered a market woman at the 

 corner of the street a small coin with about half a 

 farthing's worth of copper in it, and pointed to 

 her basket of fine jargonel pears. She gave me 

 two handfuls and then began to fumble in a huge 

 pocket for -change* I pointed next to a wisket of 

 lovely grapes — blue and green ; got two bunches of 

 each, and still change left — had it out in plums ; 

 and Cooper and I, with our pockets full, next 

 called in at a baker's, got some rolls, and made a 

 very primitive and delicious meal as we rolled 

 along out of Freiburg. . . . Many kisses for my 

 Willie. I shall soon sing him into recollection if 

 he has forgotten me. . . . Many kind inquiries 

 and good wishes were made, and often, after my 

 father-in-law ; there were many Germans who 

 had a lively recollection of his urbanity to them 

 when in London. We start to-night for Mann- 

 heim, then steam to Bonn ; there a day or two 

 museuming, and then for Home, Home, dear 

 Home!' 



Owen returned from Germany, as the journal 

 shows, on October 1. The following entries then 

 occur : — 



' October 20. — R. to a Council at the Zoo- 

 logical Gardens, where an inquiry was made about 

 the death of the poor djeggetai, or wild ass. The 



