But big Churi, the leader of the Middle Lotters, our enemies, is Hannibal.

But you see, I just remember something: Churi is not a real Hannibal, for he was a great and noble general, and Churi cannot represent him; but do you know what, we can take the strange boy Erick, for Hannibal!--he looks quite different from Churi,--shall we ?" "That is all the same to me since we cannot be in the fight," remarked Ritz.
"That is true, we dare not, I had quite forgotten that," lamented Edi.
"If I only knew what we could do to be in this fight and yet not do anything that is forbidden." "Don't you know an example in the world's history ?" asked Ritz, to whom his brother presented so often, in cases of need, examples out of this rich fountain.
"No.

If we only lived like the old Greeks," Edi answered with a deep sigh.

"When they wanted to know anything of which no one knew the answer, they quickly drove to Delphi to the oracle and asked advice.
Then there was an answer at once and they knew what was to be done.

But now there are no more oracles, not even in Greece.