The candidate Jobs this answer making,
There followed of heads a general shaking,
And first the inspector said, "Hm, hm!"
Then the others, secundum ordinem.

Herr Krager now in his turn stood ready-
And "If you please, Master Candidate," said he,
"Inform me who was St. Augustine?"
Hieronimus answered with open mien:

"The only Augustine of whom I've any knowledge
Is the one I used to know at college,
Augustine, the beadle of the university,
Who often before the president cited me."

The candidate Jobs this answer making,
There followed of heads a general shaking,
And first the inspector said, "Hm, hm!"
Then the others, secundum ordinem.

Now followed Herr Krisch at once, and requested
To know "Of how many parts a sermon consisted?
In other words, how many divisions may there be,
When it is written by rule?" said he.

Hieronimus, having taken a moment to determine,
Replied, "There are two parts to every sermon;
The one of these two parts no man
Can understand, but the other he can."

The candidate Jobs this answer making,
There followed of heads a general shaking,
And first the inspector said, "Hm, hm!"
Then the others, secundum ordinem.

Herr Beff, the linguist, continued the examination,
And desired of Master Hieronimus information:
"What the Hebrew Kibbutz might be?"
Hieronimus's answer was somewhat free:

"I find in a book to which I've paid attention,
Sophia's tour from Memel to Saxony mention:
That she to the surly Kibbutz fell,
Because she refused the rich old swell."

The candidate Jobs this answer making,
There followed of heads a general shaking,
And first the inspector said, "Hm, hm!"
Then the others, secundum ordinem.

Next in turn it came to Herr Schreier,
Who did of Hieronimus inquire,
"How many classes of angels he
Considered there might properly be?"

Hieronimus answered, "He never pretended
With all the angels to be acquainted,
But there was one of them he knew
On the Angel Tavern sign, painted blue."

The candidate Jobs this answer making,
There followed of heads a general shaking,
And first the inspector said, "Hm, hm!"
Then the others, secundum ordinem.

Herr Plötz proceeded with the interrogation:
"Can you give, Sir Candidate, an enumeration

Of the concilia æcumenica?"

And Hieronimus answered, "Sir,

"When I at the university did study,
I was often cited before a body
Called a council, but it never seemed to me
To have anything to do with economy."

The candidate Jobs this answer making,
There followed of heads a general shaking,
And first the inspector said, "Hm, hm!"
Then the others, secundum ordinem.

Then followed his spiritual lordship, Herr Keffer;
The question he started seemed somewhat tougher,
It related "to the Manichean heresy,
And what their faith was originally."

Answer: "Yes, these simple devils
Did really think that without any cavils,
Before my departure my debts I'd pay off,
And in fact I did cudgel them soundly enough."

The candidate Jobs this answer making,
There followed of heads a general shaking,
And first the inspector said, "Hm, hm!"
Then the others, secundum ordinem.

The remaining questions that received attention,
For want of room I omit to mention;

For otherwise the protocol

Would exceed seven sheets, if given in full.

For there were many questions, dogmatical,
Polemical, and hermeneutical,

To which Hieronimus made reply
In the manner above, successively.

And likewise many questions in philology,
And other sciences ending in ology,

And whatever else to a clergyman may
Be put on examination day.

When the candidate Jobs his answer was making,
There would follow of heads a general shaking,
And first the inspector would say, "Hm, hm!"
Then the others, secundum ordinem.

Now when the examination had expired,
Hieronimus by permission retired,

That the case might be viewed on every side,
And the council carefully decide

If conscience would advise the admission
Of Hieronimus to the position

And class of candidates for the

Holy Gospel ministry.

Immediately they proceeded to voting,

But very soon, without much disputing,

The meeting was unanimous

That, under the circumstances, Hieronimus

Would not persist in his application

As a candidate for ordination,

But for special reasons they thought it best
To let the matter quietly rest.

In fact, for years it was kept so private,
No stranger ever heard anything of it,

But everybody, early and late,
Held Hieronimus for a candidate.

-"The Jobsiad."

Adelbert von Chamisso

Sale of a Human Shadow

THE porter announced me, and I had the honor to be summoned into the park, where Mr. Jones was walking with a small company. I knew him instantly by his portly selfcomplacency. He received me tolerably well-as a rich man is wont to receive a poor dependent devil-looked toward me, but without turning from the rest of the company, and took from me the letter I held in my hand. "Aye, aye, from my brother! I have not heard from him this long time. Is he well?-There," he continued, addressing the company without waiting for an answer, and pointed with the letter to a hill-"there I have ordered a new building to be erected."

He broke the seal, but not the conversation, of which wealth became the subject. "He who is not the master of at least a million," he interposed, "forgive the expression, is a ragamuffin." "That is true, indeed!" exclaimed I, with full, overflowing feeling. He must have been pleased with the expression of my concurrence, for he smiled on me, and said, "Remain here, my young friend; I shall perhaps have time to tell you by and by what I think of it." He pointed to the letter, put it into his pocket, and turned again to the company. He then offered his arm to a young lady; other gentlemen were busy with other fair ones; every one found some one to whom he attached himself, and they walked toward the rose-encircled hill. I lingered behind, for not a soul deemed me worthy of notice. The company was ex