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A STROI/L THROUGH BERLIN. 127
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ministerhowever unwilling to turn his own house into a place of execution , had no resource but to give the fatal order , a wooden
scaffold with , a single arm was erected , and the handsome but unfortunate housemaid suffered the cruel penaltyin the presence of
, anxious a pitying to crowd see at , who least onl the y dispersed scene of the to make event . way "Ver for y others soon , after equall , it y
was discovered that the missing spoon had only been carried off by seen a tame to bring goat , it which back , after to the making place whence a plaything it was of taken it for ; and a time when , was it
mini the was st thus street er , feeling proved , thronged that he could the before poor never , became victim again had almost live after ther find impassable all e in been comfort innocent , and , tried the to ,
anxiously to dispose of the house , but could no one willing purchase all that had the occurred ill-omened tried abode to repair . The as king far as , h possible owever , the on mischief hearing
he had occasioned , by , revoking at once his harsh edict , and himself to purchasin gallows strangers had g . the stood Hard house , railed out as , this to where over her poor and , long g used irl ' after s as fate a with , cellar the seemed what , hole was , she would pointed where yet have had . out the
li been ob ght erved her measure in doom Berlin dealt in yet provided earlier that days , compared thoug , for the h men most who ancient committed code of pett law y
s not theft should with only a be less hanged penalt , y women than that who of fell being into buried this crime alive should . escape
The most notable street in this part is the Breite-strasse , not for Christmas anything now tim visible e to all , but the as children being the in gran the d cit point yfrom of attraction the little at
, princes beggar running and princesses barefoot in in their the sump snow of , tuous nrtrees for it carriage is nourish here , that to the the lanted young great
Christmas Fair is heldand forests , transp hither from their native , woodslike IBirnam Wood come to Dunsinanetill they are sent off to , the various homes , where they
destined , to bear far other fruit than that with which Nature are would have adorned them . fail to _wandei
the along The dyers its Spree bank and is , bleachers and reached mark have again where , established , but at this time plebeian would themselves end of in the curious city , *
sty similar le , not on onl a y _sinall beside scale , but to upon those the of str the eam Parisian , in little wooden washerwomen erections on , that
institution the the Seine sick are ; the or entirel to " Bethanien catch tended even , " b a the distant Protestant model glimpse hosp Deaconesses ital of of Berlin , interesting under , where the ' y y
any active of superintendence Berlin ' s eleven swimming of a peeress -baths which , or , to large pay at and the least most shortest numerousl visit to y
attended establishmentsmost of are partially open to ladiesthough the instruction , which alone can make them fully , 0 _dftlie
available is dispensed at the high charge of £ 1 . 14 s . . or
A Stroi/L Through Berlin. 127
A STROI / L _THROUGH BERLIN . 127
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/55/
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