For the author's likeness he's asking.

Accept then this book, my friends, as before,

With kind and growing affection;

When the Schwarzwald's Poet shall be no more,

Still hold him in fond recollection.

Carlsruhe, October, 1876.

THE

TRUMPETER OF SÄKKINGEN.

[FIRST PART.]

HOW YOUNG WERNER RODE INTO THE SCHWARZWALD.