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So he sent out letters to his friends inviting contributions, and in due time there appeared, after a fresh outlay of borrowed money, an 'Anthology for the Year 1782'. It consisted of some four-score poems, signed with all manner of intentionally misleading symbols and purporting to emanate from Tobolsko, in Siberia. The most of the verses were the work of Schiller.
Yet if this anthology reconciles you squeamish Europeans to us snow-men as little as let's suppose the case our "Muses' Almanac," which we let's again suppose the case might have written, it will at least have the merit of helping its companions through the whole of Germany to give the last neck-stab to expiring taste, as we people of Tobolsko like to word it.
Your matadors claim to have coined silver when they have stamped their effigy on wretched pewter; and at Tobolsko coiners are hanged. 'Tis true that you may often find paper-money amongst us instead of Russian roubles, but war and hard times are an excuse for anything. Go forth then, Siberian anthology! Go!
I hear you are calculating on living to see a general collation, where great and small, globes and lexicons, philosophies and knick-knacks, will fly into your jaws a good appetite to you, should it come to that. TOBOLSKO, 2d February. Tum primum radiis gelidi incaluere Triones. Flowers in Siberia? Behind this lies a piece of knavery, or the sun must make face against midnight.
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