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mit  eigner  Hand,  with  his  own  hand’;  the  def.  or
indef.  art.  is  often  omitted  in  short  adv.  phrases,  as  auf
freiem  Feld,  auf  halbem  Wege,  in  kurzer  Zeit,  auf  eigne
Gefahr,  in  gleicher  Lage  (1.  27).

u.  ganz  Deutschland,  the  whole  of  Germany';  similarly  halb

Frankreich,  ganz  London;  but  die  ganze  Welt,  sein  ganzes
Vermögen  (°property'),  ein  ganzer  Mann  #areal  man,’
das  ganze  Vaterland  (1.  z2s).  WM'hen  are  ganz  and  halb
undeclined?

Weißenburg,  Gaisberg,  Wörth:  in  the  Rhine  -valle
W.  ofthe  river  on  the  opposite  side  1o  Karlsruhe.  Spicheren,
just  S.  of  Saarbrück.  Metz,  on  the  Alosel,  a  magnificent
fortress  of  the  first  rank,  belonged  to  the  French  1648  to
1871,  now  the  capital  of  German  Lorraine  (Lothringen).

Maec-Mahon  (i808—  93).  duc  de  Magenta,  Marshal  of
France,  was  the  second  President  of  the  third  French
Republic  1873—70.

dem  ähnliches,  the  like  to  it"  its  equal.
.  die  Schlachten  am  14.,  16.,  18.:  these  great  battles

were  planned  by  Nloltke  to  prevent  the  advance  of  the  French
either  northwards  or  westwards  and  to  hurl  them  back  on
Metz.

Schimmel,  grey  horse’:  der  Rappe  black  horse.  connected
  with  Rabe  raven'’;  der  Falben  cream-coloured:;
der  Isabell  light  bay';  der  Fuchs  chesinm“;  der  Scheck
piebald.“

.  wohl  vernahm  er,  no  doubt  he  heard’;  vernehmen  to

learn  by  the  ear’“;  wahrnehmen  to  distinguish  by  the  erc.

l.  im  großen  und  ganzen,  on  ihe  #uhole’';  8so,  im

einzelnen  in  detail“;  im  allgemeinen  in  general’;  in
kurzem  shortl).“

ja,  Fou  ser’;  cf.  note,  p.  3  1.  24.

verstummt,  became  dumb’  silenced.  Why  war  and
not  hatte?  The  prefik  ver--  forms  from  adfij.  verbs  denoting
a  change  into  or  toward  the  condition  indicatcd  by  the  stem:
verkürzen  10  curtail“;  vergrößern  lo  increase';  verkühlen
  to  cool’;  veredeln  to  ennoble.'

verhallte,  died  away  (of  scund),  is  an  egxample  of  a  verr

frequent  force  of  ver-,  1%  of  porber,  exhaustion,  as  verhungern

to  die  of  hunger’;  verspielen  to  losc  by  play“;  verblühen
do  fade’;  veralten  o  become  obsolete.“

Diftierte:  borrowed  from  the  Fr.,  Germ.  sagte  in  die  Feder.