To-day I got leave of absence for the first time, and had the good luck to meet one of the drivers, else I should not have found you out yet.

And now, Mr.
Wohlfart, what of our principal, and what of your goods ?" "Come with me into my room, and you shall hear all," replied Anton.
"Stop a moment," cried Karl; "you speak to me more formally than you used to do, and I can't stand that.

Please to speak just as if I was Karl in our old place yonder." "But you are no longer so," said Anton, laughing.
"This is only a masquerade," said Karl, pointing to his uniform; "in my heart I am still a supernumerary porter of T.O.Schroeter's." "Have it your own way, Karl," replied Anton; "but come in, and hear all about it." Karl soon fell, as might have been expected, into a violent rage with the good-for-nothing landlord.

"The thievish dog! he has dared to attack our firm and our head! To-morrow I'll take a whole troop of our fellows there.

I'll drive him into his own yard, and we'll all play at leap-frog over him by the hour, and at every leap we'll give a kick to that wicked head of his." "Mr.Schroeter let him go unpunished," said Anton; "don't be more cruel than he.