Beginning next week, so I hear, they will go out into the fields and the orchards to assist in the harvesting of the grain and the fruit.

For lack of hands to get it under cover the wheat has already begun to suffer; but the boys and girls will bring it in.
It is now half-past eleven o'clock in the forenoon.

At noon, sharp, an excellent orchestra will begin to play in the big white casino maintained by the city, just opposite my hotel.

It will play for an hour then, and again this afternoon, and again, weather permitting, to-night.
The townspeople will sit about at small, white tables and listen to the music while they sip their beer or drink their coffee.

They will be soberer and less vivacious than I imagine they were two months ago; but then these North Germans are a sober-minded race anyhow, and they take their amusements quietly.