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Shortly before he was taken out of his cell, the man came to
him and put a board across his lap, and laid upon it a sheet of
paper, and placed a pencil in his fingers, and guided his hand in
making marks upon the paper. After he was left alone, he took
great pleasure in making the same marks upon the paper,
although he did not know what they meant. The man came
several times and showed him how to write the words
Kaspar HAUSER,
and taught him to repeat the sentence, “I want to be a soldier, as
my father was,” and the other words which he had used on first
coming to Nuremberg.
Afterwards, the man came to him and lifted him up, and
showed him how to walk by standing behind him and pushing his
feet forwards. This lesson was repeated several times, and,
‘nally, the man came and lifted him up and carried him on his
back out of the cell and over what seemed to be a hill,
On coming into the open air Kaspar fainted away, and his
memories of the journey to Nuremberg, which followed his
release from captivity, were confused, as they would necessarily be,
on being suddenly placed in entirely new circumstances.
He remembered walking many times a short distance, and
lying down on the ground frequently to rest. He suffered greatly
from fatigue, and from pain in his feet, and from thirst. The
man gave him bread and water several times, and encouraged
him to go on by promising him prettier horses than those he had
had in his cell. He made him repeat often the sentences he had
learned, Kaspar never saw the man’s face, as he was told to
look always on the ground, and when he walked he was obliged
“0 watch his feet in order to see how to move them. He
had no recollection of the country through which he passed; he
saw nobody and observed nothing. All he remembered dis-
linctly was that his clothes were changed before he entered the
city, and that the man put a letter in his hand and left him alone.
This meagre account is all that could be expected from a person
in Kaspar Hauser’s mental condition at the time of the recital.