Howitt, Anna Mary: An art-student in Munich: in two volumes (Band 1) (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853)

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AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.

tragedy. And, not contented with, these dismal histories
in prose, they are also done into verse. Here is a specimen
of these dismal ditties, being the rhymster’s version of the
heroically self-sacrificed Bohemian officer :—
i.
At Melnick in Bohemia
There was a deed of horror done,
By wicked hands, as you shall hear,
All in the pleasant noonday sun.
Eleven men of bad intent
Unto the mill of Melnick went,
And there five people did they kill,
All in cold blood their lives did spill!
II.
The miller he came home at eve,
And soon beheld the dreadful sight;
And he resolved to go at once
And seek the murderers out that night.
Unto his friend his grief he told,
And he, a captain stout and bold,
Called for his horse, and with good speed
Set out to do this righteous deed.
ill.
But first I must to you make known
That their own dog did them betray,
Which had been tied up in the mill,
And now was tracked upon its way.
The eleven murderers thus were found
With all their booty on the ground :
The valiant captain entered in
And charged them with their heinous sin.