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Tuk day on which the rightful Grand-Duke of Baden, or Kaspar 
Hauser, as he was thenceforth known to the world, appeared in 
Nuremberg, was Whit-Monday, May 23, 1328. 
The second Whitsun-holiday is a favourite festival of the 
people of Nuremberg, and is usually devoted to excursions into 
the country, so that only a comparatively small part of the popu- 
‘ation remain inside the city walls on that day. Between four 
and five o’clock in the afternoon, a shoemaker, named Weich- 
mann, on leaving his house in Unschlitt-Platz, saw a young man, 
apparently about sixteen or eighteen years old, and dressed like a 
neasant, standing in the square, and moving about in an uncer- 
:ain way, as though he were drunk. Weichmann approached the 
stranger, who handed him a letter addressed—* To the Captain 
of the 4th Squadron of the 6th Regiment of Cavalry in Nurem- 
berg.” As Weichmann was going in the direction of the nearest 
guardhouse, he escorted the boy thither, and having learned the 
address of the Captain’s residence, which was close by, he took the 
boy to the door of the house, rang the bell, and left him there. 
As soon as the door was opened by the servant, the stranger, 
without removing his hat, held out the letter, saying, in broken 
dialect : “ A so’ chene Reiter micht ih wikn, wie mei Volta gwahn 
7s” (“I want to be a soldier, as my father was”); and to all the 
questions asked him, he had only the same answer to give: “1 
want to be a soldier as my father was.” 
The Captain being out of town, the letter was delivered to his 
wife, who, on seeing that the boy looked tired and weak, ordered 
meat, bread, and beer to be brought to him. He refused this 
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