when I bring you the article, quickly run with it to the
press--understand?

SCHMOCK.

How can I help understanding when you croak like a raven?

[_EXIT_.]

[Illustration: _Permission F Bruckmann, A -G, Munich_
AT THE CONCERT ADOLPH VON MENZEL.]

BLUMENBERG (_to_ SENDEN).

He is a vulgar person, but he is useful! Now that we are alone,
listen! The other day when you brought me to call here, I begged the
Colonel just to write down his ideas on the questions of the day.

SENDEN.

Yes, alas! You piled on the flattery much too thick, but the old
gentleman did, nevertheless, at last take fire.

BLUMENBERG.

We begged him to read to us what he had written; he read it to us, we
praised it.

SENDEN.