"But he still lives.
"Fenk."
FOOTNOTES:
[1]: The German word for the dash is Gedanken-strich: Thought-stroke: (or Pause for Reflection).--(Tr.)
[2]: He would not have known that, had he not got it from the new Tacticians, Messrs. Hahn & Müller, who teach the young officer the Differential Calculus in order that it may not be hard for him in the heat of battle to calculate the right base angle in wheeling and deploying. Even so have I a hundred times wanted to write a book in which to enable the poor-aiming billiard player merely by a few solutions in mechanics and higher mathematics to carom with his eyes shut.
[3]: An allusion to an imagined mystic virtue in the number 4.--(Tr.)
[4]: Lit. "Knee-piece."--(Tr.)
[5]: Famous grammarian and purist.--(Tr.)
[6]: Stieck, oder Steckte, is the German, quizzing the grammatical purists of the day.
[7]: Cambyses took Pelusium by storm, by interspersing among his soldiers sacred animals, cats, etc., at which the Egyptian garrison did not dare to shoot, and discharged prayers instead of arrows.