Here we stand in mud to the ears; fifteen of the Regiment Alt-Baden have sunk altogether in the mud.

Mud comes of a water-spout, or sudden cataract of rain, there was in these Heidelberg Countries; two villages, Fuhrenheim and Sandhausen, it swam away, every stick of them (GANZ UND GAR).
"Captain van Stojentin, of Regiment Flans," one of our eight Regiments here, "has got wounded in the head, in an affair of honor; he is still alive, and it is hoped he will get through it.
"The Drill-Demon has now got into the Kaiser's people too: Prince Eugene is grown heavier with his drills than we ourselves.

He is often three hours at it;--and the Kaiser's people curse us for the same, at a frightful rate.Adieu.If the Devil don't get thee, he ought.

Therefore VALE.

[_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxvii.