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Updated: May 9, 2025
However the breach was healed, and a proper invitation came for Nicholas; but the business of his stewardship prevented him from accepting. The relations with John, the parish priest of Wurtzen, are more harmonious.
We were nearing Wurtzen and the rain was falling in torrents, when the quartermaster cried for the twentieth time: "Ay, Poitevin! Here is life for you! This will teach you to hiss!" "What sort of a proverb is that of yours?" I asked; "I would like to know how the rain would teach you to hiss." "It is not a proverb, young man; it is an idea which runs in my head when I try to be cheerful."
The day after we got this important news there was a general inspection, and twelve hundred of the wounded of Lutzen were ordered to rejoin their corps. They went by companies with arms and baggage, some following the road to Altenbourg, which runs along the Elster, and some the road to Wurtzen, farther to the left. Zimmer was of the number, having himself asked leave to go.
We were following the Wurtzen high road, our muskets slung on our backs, our great-coat capes turned up, bending beneath our knapsacks, and feeling down-hearted enough, as you may imagine. The rain was falling, and ran from our shakos down our necks; the wind shook the poplars, and their yellow leaves, fluttering around us, told of the approach of winter. So hour after hour passed.
By the New Year of 1523 he had made two sundials; one which showed the time on five sides at once, he sent to John at Wurtzen, the other to Barbara at Heppach. His cell looked South, and thus he could study the movements of the moon and the planets, and note the southing of the stars. He could turn his skill to profit, too, and exchange his dials for pictures of the saints.
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