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Updated: May 15, 2025
Even the heroic tailor had climbed down from the hump of the shoemaker, and remained thoughtful and silent. "The man is right," cried the shoemaker, in his grumbling, bass voice. "Yes, indeed," said his gossip, the glover; "why should we sacrifice our legs and arms? We can't beat them anyhow." "Now, my friends," whispered Kretschmer to his associates, "now is your turn to speak.
Krause, softly, "to thank Gotzkowsky for saving us, but I must confess it worries me to see him so glorified." Mr. Kretschmer shrugged his shoulders contemptuously. "Let them praise him," said he; "the Vossian Gazette will not notice it, and I will not write the smallest article on this occasion.
Formulæ designed to assign numerical values to fighting ships have been laboriously worked out, notably by Constructor Otto Kretschmer of the German navy; but the results cannot be accepted as anything except very able approximations. Furthermore, if ship A could whip ship B under some conditions, B could whip A under other conditions.
At this moment there was heard a loud crying and shouting; and while the printer's boy pitched out of the door, Mr. Kretschmer hurried to the window to find out the cause of the uproar. A heaving, noisy crowd filled the street below, and had halted right under the editor's window.
And happy was he in spirit at this victory obtained over his rival, the editor of the Vossian Gazette, and it made him very proud indeed to think that this once he had forestalled Mr. Kretschmer, and consequently would have the monopoly of describing in the morning's paper, to the people of Berlin, the magnificent and pompous entrance of the Russians!
Krause and Kretschmer, with sullen looks, witnessing the homage paid to Gotzkowsky, their souls filled with envy and rage. They, too, had come to thank him, but with unwilling hearts, because they could not be well absent from the festivities which the whole town offered him.
Kretschmer, sat at his desk, busily writing. That he was a learned man was seen by his earnest, care-worn forehead, his large, well-powdered wig, and above all by the disorder and confusion which reigned in the whole room. Besides which, Mr. Kretschmer wore a dressing-gown, thickly sprinkled with ink-spots, the official robe of his literary dignity.
"I am afraid our prospects are equally bad, and for that reason I have come to you, that we might consult together as to what we had best do, to avert this threatening blow from our heads." "You are right," said Kretschmer, drawing nearer to his brother editor. "Let us consider. Above all things, no exciting calls, no appeals to the people to perform deeds of heroic valor.
"Did any one speak?" sounded back again, and two heads were seen protruding from the pillars on each side of the gate, the eyes in them inquiringly peering at each other. The morning in the mean while had become lighter, and, with an inward shudder, the two gentlemen recognized each other. "It is Spener's! May the devil take him!" thought Mr. Kretschmer. "It is the Vossian!
These two men, who so unexpectedly appeared at the side of the prophetic weaver, were none else than the two editors, Kretschmer and Krause, who came to support him in his exhortations in favor of peace, and to use their eloquence on the multitude assembled in front of the town-hall. Mr. Krause opened: "Listen to me, good citizens of Berlin; look at my gray hairs.
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