yonder; take them in flank,--cannot we? On as far as Kyge, the
Three have ridden reconnoitring; and found no possibility upon the
front; nor at Kyge, where the front ends in batteries, pools and
quagmires, is there any. "Difficult, not undoable," persists the
King: "and it must be straightway set about and got done."
Winterfeld, always for action, is of that opinion, too: and,
examining farther down along their right flank, reports that there
the thing is feasible.

Feasible perhaps: "but straightway?" objects Schwerin. His men have
been on foot since midnight, and on forced marches for days past:
were it not better to rest for this one day? "Rest:--and Daun,
coming on with 30,000 of reinforcement to them, might arrive this
night? Never, my good Feldmarschall;"--and as the Feldmarschall was
a man of stiff notions, and had a tongue of some emphasis, the
Dialogue went on, probably with increasing emphasis on Friedrich's
side too, till old Schwerin, with a quite emphatic flash of
countenance, crushing the hat firm over his brow, exclaims: "Well,
your Majesty: the fresher fish the better fish (FRISCHE FISCHE,
GUTE FISCHE): straightway, then!" and springs off on the gallop
southward, he too, seeking some likely point of attack. He too,--
conjointly or not with Winterfeld, I do not know: Winterfeld
himself does not say; whose own modest words on the subject readers
shall see before we finish. But both are mentioned in the Books as
searching, at hand-gallop, in this way: and both, once well round
to south, by the Podschernitz ["Podschernitz" is pronounced
PotSHERnitz (should we happen to mentionn it again); "Kyge,"
KEEGA.] quarter, with the Austrian right flank full in view, were
agreed that here the thing was possible. "Infantry to push from
this quarter towards Sterbohol yonder, and then plunge into their