Only the end is the same--that is to say, my new, well-ventilated castle out there on the heath, fine girdles and neck-pieces and anklets of iron, and six feet of clearance for each of you to swing in.' "So they went back to their castles, and robbed and ravished and rieved, even as did their fathers for a thousand years, thinking no evil.

But I took my soldiers, whom in seven years' service I had taught to obey orders-two foot of clearance did well enough for the disobedient among them, not being either ritters or men of mark.

And I, Karl the Miller's brat, as at that time they called me in contempt, borrowed cannon-- great lumbering things--from my friend the Margrave George, down there to the south.

A great work we had dragging them up to Plassenburg by rope and chain and laboring plough oxen.

We shot them off before the fourteen-feet walls.