tasteful and with tasteless dresses; the big hall was quite crowded

with people. The clergymen stood humbly together in a corner, and

looked as if they were preparing for a funeral, but it was a festival-

only the amusement had not yet begun. A great concert was to take

place, and that is why the baron's young son had brought his willow

flute with him; but he could not make it sound, nor could his

father, and therefore the flute was good for nothing.

There was music and songs of the kind which delight most those