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He did not stop long. The next moment we saw him throw his hands up to his face, and uttering a cry that betokened pain and terror, come running back as quick as he had gone off. Then jerking his tail from side to side in a frolicksome manner, he made a bound into the bramble, and disappeared.
The grass grew quietly in the highways the bleating sheep and frolicksome calves sported about the verdant ridge, where now the Broadway loungers take their morning stroll the cunning fox or ravenous wolf skulked in the woods, where now are to be seen the dens of Gomez and his righteous fraternity of money-brokers and flocks of vociferous geese cackled about the fields, where now the great Tammany wigwam and the patriotic tavern of Martling echo with the wranglings of the mob.
"Why do you think so?" said he; but his tongue was becoming thick, though his eyes were getting brighter. "Because," she said, "a widower is an odd critter." "Odd?" he replied, "in what way odd, dear?" "Why," said the girl, "an ox of ourn lately lost his mate, and my brother called him the odd ox, and not the single ox, and he is the most frolicksome fellow you ever see.
He took the rose-colored little book, and shouting tossed it to the ceiling, and sprang about like a mad bacchant, and finally threw himself upon the carpet, rolling over and over like a frolicksome, good-natured child upon its nurse's lap. Goethe laughed aloud. "What are you doing, dear Moritz? What does this mean?" he asked.
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