Her father was the traditional guardian of beauty, surly as the mastiff that watched his sacks of flour and his hoard of thalers; and though he doted on his darling Katrine, his heart to all the world beside seemed to be only a chip from one of his old mill-stones.

The other was Hans Stolzen, a carpenter, past thirty, a shrewd, well-to-do fellow, with nearly a thousand thalers saved from his earnings.

Carl had never fought a duel,and he had not saved so much as a thousand groschen, to say nothing of thalers; he had only a manly figure, a cheery, open face, the freshness of one-and-twenty, and a heart incapable of guile.

We must now follow the absconding Stolzen, who, with his bag of thalers, had made good his escape into England.

In Guiuan I had an opportunity of purchasing four richly painted Chinese dishes which came from a similar cavern, and a gold signet ring; the latter consisting of a plate of gold, originally bent into a tube of the thickness of a quill with a gaping seam, and afterwards into a ring as large as a thaler, which did not quite meet.

At the age of twenty, having saved twenty thalers (about 3l.

Bach left no will, and his children seized his manuscripts; what little money remained from his salary of 87 thalers a year (£13 or $65) they divided with the widow, now fifty years old.

Carl gave Caroline's mother a pension of nine hundred thalers, though her husband and son were living.

In Southern Germany, life is simpler and cheaper than in Northern, and the saying is true in Munich, that a Gulden there will go as far as a Thaler in Prussia.

"Vy for von hundred thaler I will land dem safe in de bay.

[Footnote **: A Prussian or Saxon thaler is about 70 cts.] CHAPTER XIX.

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By Alwin Thaler.

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A few weeks before his own death he arranged for an edition of his complete works, for which he was to receive 35,000 thaler ($26,000).

" I bid one mark more, and Sölling raised me a thaler.

Her houses and lands were taken from her; but her furniture and jewels were left untouched, and with them she was allowed to enjoy a pension of four thousand thalers a year.

And in addition to that the old codger will give her six thousand thalers in cash!

[Footnote B: A Prussian or Saxon thaler is about seventy cents.

Author's noteThe thaler went out of use in Germany in 1906.