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Kaspar Hauser. 
drawing-room with sofas, and chairs, and cabinets, mirrors, and 
pictures, also a dining-room, containing glass closets filled with 
silver, porcelain, and other articles of table use. In a large 
chamber he himself lay in bed, and soon a lady came and stood 
beside him, and afterwards a gentleman entered the room dressed 
in black, a hat on his head, a sword at his side, and on his breast 
a cross upon a wide blue ribbon. The lady wore a yellow hat 
adorned with a mass of white feathers. 
Kaspar asked her what she wanted. She gave no answer, but 
waved a white handkerchief towards him, and then left the 
chamber with the man. 
Then Professor Daumer came to him, and they went together 
:hrough the house and chose rooms for themselves and for Mrs, 
Daumer and her daughter. At last they visited the library, where 
Kaspar was able to read the Greek and Latin books without 
difficulty. Then he awoke and found it was all a dream, and 
-egretted most of all that he could not retain the ability to read 
Latin and Greek. 
The dream was probably caused by some faint recollection of 
‘mpressions received in early childhood, or it may have been 
only a reflection of hereditary influences. Later, it was asserted 
by persons concerned in his abduction that he was kept until he 
was nearly four years old in a castle near Karlsruhe, and if this 
be true, he may have seen in that place such rooms as he de- 
scribed : certain it is that in Nuremberg he had never met with 
the like surroundings, and when, about two weeks later, he visited 
the castle with Professor Daumer, he was vividly reminded of his 
dream by many objects in that stately pile. 
In September, 1828, Kaspar began to write his memoir, an 
andertaking which cost him a great deal of labour, and demanded 
much copying and correcting before it could be brought into pre- 
sentable shape. It was the same story which Mayor Binder 
published in July, merely amplified in unimportant particulars. 
Kaspar began also to keep a journal, in which he noted down 
he most interesting occurrences of each day. His health steadily