LACONIC AND DECISIVE.

A WEALTHY Jew, having made several ineffectual applications for leave to

quit Berlin, at length sent a letter to the king imploring permission to

travel for the benefit of his health, to which he received the following

answer:

"Dear Ephraim,

"Nothing but death shall part us.

"FREDERICK."

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