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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 i. 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 
