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AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
fair hair falling in ringlets on their shoulders, carrying
garlands. Thus marched in six-and-twenty stalwart youths,
wearing tightly-fitting canary-coloured jerkins, confined
round the waist by a black leathern belt; their arms,
their heads, their necks bare; their legs clothed in
tightly-fitting hose, and with sandals on their feet. These
all were bakers’ apprentices, great adepts in the art of
wrestling, even from the old times, when certain valiant
Munich bakers won great renown at the Battle of Miihl-
dorf, in 1322, when Ludwig the Bavarian vanquished his
rival, Philip the Handsome of Austria, and assumed the
imperial crown. It is this Ludwig’s triumphal entry into
Munich, after this victory, which forms the subject of the
fiesco on the Isar Gate.
Next after the six-and-twenty young bakers came ten
sturdy young wheelwrights, in the midst of whom was
borne a quaint old wheel, garlanded with wreaths of moss.
Each of the ten rolled, as he came along, a gaily-painted
wheel; and with their black velvet caps, their snowy shirts,
gay with blue-and-white braces crossed over breast and
back, and black velvet breeches and white stockings, they
made a very goodly show. The quaint old wheel which
was borne aloft, and around which ran a black-letter legend,
is a precious heir-loom of the wheelwrights’ guild. It was
made in one day, some centuries ago, by a young wheel-
wright, and then, by him, in one day also, rolled from
Augsburg to Munich, a distance of forty-one English miles.
The musicians took their place above the arena; the
heralds withdrew with their banners to either side. The
bakers arranged themselves in a half-circle, and the wheel-
wrights stood each with a hand on his wheel, and then,
attended by the festival directors, all wearing blue and
white rosettes, slowly proceeded along the race-course to
the point whence they were to commence their race. Anon,
with rapid pace, they shot past, man and wheel vying with
AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
fair hair falling in ringlets on their shoulders, carrying
garlands. Thus marched in six-and-twenty stalwart youths,
wearing tightly-fitting canary-coloured jerkins, confined
round the waist by a black leathern belt; their arms,
their heads, their necks bare; their legs clothed in
tightly-fitting hose, and with sandals on their feet. These
all were bakers’ apprentices, great adepts in the art of
wrestling, even from the old times, when certain valiant
Munich bakers won great renown at the Battle of Miihl-
dorf, in 1322, when Ludwig the Bavarian vanquished his
rival, Philip the Handsome of Austria, and assumed the
imperial crown. It is this Ludwig’s triumphal entry into
Munich, after this victory, which forms the subject of the
fiesco on the Isar Gate.
Next after the six-and-twenty young bakers came ten
sturdy young wheelwrights, in the midst of whom was
borne a quaint old wheel, garlanded with wreaths of moss.
Each of the ten rolled, as he came along, a gaily-painted
wheel; and with their black velvet caps, their snowy shirts,
gay with blue-and-white braces crossed over breast and
back, and black velvet breeches and white stockings, they
made a very goodly show. The quaint old wheel which
was borne aloft, and around which ran a black-letter legend,
is a precious heir-loom of the wheelwrights’ guild. It was
made in one day, some centuries ago, by a young wheel-
wright, and then, by him, in one day also, rolled from
Augsburg to Munich, a distance of forty-one English miles.
The musicians took their place above the arena; the
heralds withdrew with their banners to either side. The
bakers arranged themselves in a half-circle, and the wheel-
wrights stood each with a hand on his wheel, and then,
attended by the festival directors, all wearing blue and
white rosettes, slowly proceeded along the race-course to
the point whence they were to commence their race. Anon,
with rapid pace, they shot past, man and wheel vying with