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But it was just as well; blood poured down Vogt's face, and when Klitzing awakened from his torpor he was seized with a kind of convulsive attack. He threw himself down, weeping and shrieking before his brave comrade, embracing his knees, and no talking could soothe him. The other recruits stood frightened and helpless around the two.
Wiegandt had not only acceded to the request, but had taken them both to serve on his own gun, the sixth; Klitzing, with his sharp eyes, as gun-layer, or No. 2; Vogt as No. 1, whose duty it was to fire. And now they sat, this Whitsun-Tuesday, side by side on the gun-carriage, with the muzzle of the gun between them; and when Wegstetten called out in his clear, strident voice, "Battery, mount!"
Among the worst were Truchsess the fat brewer, the clerk Klitzing, and Frielinghausen. The brewer, it is true, was a strong, powerful man, but far too slow in his movements. Klitzing, on the other hand, was too weak for the demands of the drill.
"No, sir," answered Landsberg. Reimers called Wiegandt to him. "What's the matter with Klitzing?" he inquired. The corporal replied: "Beg pardon, sir; the man means thoroughly well and takes great pains; but I think he is far too delicate." "Very good, Wiegandt," said Reimers, and dismissed him. Then he turned seriously and officially to Landsberg.
But Listing replied: "Well, no. Not exactly. But perhaps I shall get used to it. I have often slept better out of doors; but worse too." Vogt soon formed his own opinions about his comrades. The best of them all, the one who put the whole lot into the shade, was without doubt Klitzing.
Then heavy clanking steps approached from the large Room VII. on the other side of the corridor, and eight or nine old drivers pushed themselves in, armed with whips, belts, and snaffle-reins. Vogt placed himself full in front of Klitzing. "You be off!" they said. "I shan't!" answered Vogt. "We'll soon make you!" "We shall see about that!"
He was constantly threatening the poor devil with extra drill; but he never enforced the punishment, as that would have meant that he himself must put in an appearance at the same time. At last Reimers, who was commanding the battery during a brief absence of the captain, put an end to this little game. "Tell me, Landsberg, have you ever consulted Corporal Wiegandt about that wretched Klitzing?"
The brewer could not help thinking of this as he very cautiously pushed the shrapnel into the bore. Klitzing, however, shoved it vigorously with the rammer, so that its metal casing clinked against the inside of the gun. "Now then, old fellow, easy on! The thing might go off!" whispered Truchsess.
For from this very day you shall have employment, since his Electoral Grace designs forthwith to have regiments equipped and brought into the field." "Hurrah! now for it!" shouted Burgsdorf, waving his right arm. "I shout hurrah, too, with your excellency's permission," said General von Klitzing joyfully.
Vogt and Klitzing were quartered together on a cottager, and though the poor fellow did not even own a cow, the older men proved right who had told them that the poor were generally better hosts than the rich. On the third day the regiment was to arrive at the practice camp. The country now became more level.
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