Page:Popular Tales of the Germans (Volume 1).djvu/256

 heavy cutters and guarda-cotas, together with the long trings of paper reolutions of the quabbling lower houe.

Friedbert had no other way of falling upon the track of his fugitive mitres than the very ame the frogs would take, were they to undertake the grand tour, that is, to hop and wim, as occaion demands, till they arrive at the place of their detination. Eagernes to find his lovely girl made the ditance from Swabia to the Cyclades eem greater than if he had had to travel to the moon. ‘Alas!’ cried he in depair, ‘how can the nail purue the light-winged butterfly that flutters from flower to flower and rets long at no tation? Who can aure me that Callita is gone back to Naxos? Will not the dread of candal in her own country direct her flight to ome other aylum? And if he is in Naxos; what will that avail me? How hall a plain pike-man dare to lift up his eyes to a daughter of the