How strange! How absurd! I have laughed and cried the whole day.
It can be nothing but a humorous report, but it is told seriously
everywhere. And combined with what we have already heard, it may indeed
be possible.
The wicked man is said to have gambled us all away,--the whole Winkel
forest, with every stick and stone, every man and mouse, together with
Andreas Erdmann,--gambled us away at the green table in one single
night. And he lost us to a Jew.