fly; galloping for life, he came upon bog which proved bottomless,
as good as bottomless; and Ludwig, horse and man, vanished in it
straightway from this world. Hapless young man, like a flash of
lightning suddenly going down there--and the Hungarian Sovereignty
along with him. For Hungary is part of Austria ever since;
having, with Bohemia, fallen to Karl V.'s Brother Ferdinand, as
now the nearest convenient heir of Albert with his Three Crowns.
Up to the lips in difficulties to this day!--

George meanwhile, with finely appointed reinforcements, was in
full march to join Ludwig; but the sad news of Mohacz met him:
he withdrew, as soon as might be, to his own territory, and
quitted Hungarian politics. This, I think, was George's third and
last trial of war. He by no means delighted in that art, or had
cultivated it like Casimir and some of his brothers.--

George by this time had considerable property; part of it
important to the readers of this History. Anspach we already know;
but the Duchy of Jagerndorf,--that and its pleasant valleys, fine
hunting-grounds and larch-clad heights, among the Giant Mountains
of Silesia,--that is to us the memorable territory. George got it
in this manner:--

Some ten or fifteen years ago, the late King Vladislaus, our Uncle
of blessed memory, loving George, and not having royal moneys at
command, permitted him to redeem with his own cash certain
Hungarian Domains, pledged at a ruinously cheap rate, but
unredeemable by Vladislaus. George did so; years ago, guess ten or
fifteen. George did not like the Hungarian Domains, with their
Turk and other inconveniences; he proposed to exchange them with