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 break, the Black Forest, which I knew was only two miles distant, being well aware that the whole country would be in a hue and cry after me as soon as my nocturnal escape should be known. Fear gave me strength and winged my feet: Fatigued and entirely spent I reached the skirts of the Black Forest, and threw myself into the first thicket to rest my weary limbs."

"Fatigued by the long journey I had made and the anxiety and fear which continually had harrassed my mind, I fell asleep: I had not slept two hours, as I could guess by the sun, when I was suddenly roused by the distant barking of dogs; I started up and listened, when the hallooing of two huntsmen vibrated in my ear: They seemed to direct their course towards the spot where I was concealed, and no other means of escape were left me, but to climb up an adjoining oak tree, and to hide myself amid its thickest branches, where I fancied to find security."