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 Now we shall see if you answer as last time!

[Calls out towards the . Hei, Boyg, who are you? [Behind the .]                          Ach, Sphinx, wer bist du? What! Echo answers in German! How strange! Wer bist du? It speaks it quite fluently too! That observation is new, and my own. [Notes in his book. "Echo in German. Dialect, Berlin." [ comes out from behind the .

A man

Oh, then it was he that was chattering.

[Notes again.

"Arrived in the sequel at other results."

[With all sorts of restless antics.]

Excuse me, mein Herr ! Eine Lebensfrage![1] What brings you to this place precisely to-day?

A visit. I'm greeting a friend of my youth.