Or he would converse with Mamma and her Ladies, if her Majesty chanced to be there, in a day for open driving.

Which things by no means increased his favor with Papa, a sworn hater of "effeminate practices." He was "nourished on beer-soup," as we said before.

Frugality, activity, exactitude were lessons daily and hourly brought home to him, in everything he did and saw.

His very sleep was stingily meted out to him: "Too much sleep stupefies a fellow!" Friedrich Wilhelm was wont to say;--so that the very doctors had to interfere, in this matter, for little Fritz.

Frugal enough, hardy enough; urged in every way to look with indifference on hardship, and take a Spartan view of life.
Money-allowance completely his own, he does not seem to have had till he was seventeen.