thoughtless Czech mischievously blew louder,--started Adalbert
broad awake upon him; who, in the fury of the first moment,
shrieked: "Deafness on thee! Man cruel to the human sense of
hearing!" or words to that effect. Which curse, like the most of
Adalbert's, was punctually fulfilled: the amazed Czech stood deaf
as a post, and went about so all his days after; nay, for long
centuries (perhaps down to the present time, in remote parts), no
Czech blows into his pipe in the woodlands, without certain
precautions, and preliminary fuglings of a devotional nature.
[Bollandus, ubi supra.]--From which miracle, as indeed from many
other indications, I infer an irritable nervous-system in poor
Adalbert; and find this death in the Romova was probably a furious
mixture of Earth and Heaven.

At all events, he lies there, beautiful though bloody, "in the
form of a crucifix;" zealous Adalbert, the hot spirit of him now
at last cold;--and has clapt his mark upon the Heathen country,
protesting to the last. This was in the year 997, think the best
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Antiquaries. It happened at a place called FISCHHAUSEN, near
Pillau, say they; on that, narrow strip of country which lies
between the Baltic aad the Frische Haf (immense Lake, WASH, as we
should say, or leakage of shallow water, one of two such, which
the Baltic has spilt out of it in that quarter),--near the Fort
and Haven of Pillau; where there has been much stir since; where
Napoleon, for one thing, had some tough fighting, prior to the
Treaty of Tilsit, fifty years ago. The place--or if not this
place, then Gnesen in Poland, the final burial-place of Adalbert,
which is better known--has ever since had a kind of sacredness;
better or worse expressed by mankind: in the form of canonization,