. Legends of the Rhine . ous race, typified by the dogs, cats, and mice,which would finally be destroyed by the smallest of theirvassals. This prediction was duly verified, for while the firstMerovingians were strong and brave, their successors werecruel and cunning. Then came the sluggard kings, whoseeffeminacy might well be compared to the cats sensuousways, and they were, as Basina had predicted, entirelysupplanted by Pepin the Short, the smallest man in thekingdom, but founder of the great Carlovingian dynasty. Zlbe Rafter DURING the Middle Ages, the inhabitants of Linz andAndernach could
. Legends of the Rhine . ous race, typified by the dogs, cats, and mice,which would finally be destroyed by the smallest of theirvassals. This prediction was duly verified, for while the firstMerovingians were strong and brave, their successors werecruel and cunning. Then came the sluggard kings, whoseeffeminacy might well be compared to the cats sensuousways, and they were, as Basina had predicted, entirelysupplanted by Pepin the Short, the smallest man in thekingdom, but founder of the great Carlovingian dynasty. Zlbe Rafter DURING the Middle Ages, the inhabitants of Linz andAndernach could never agree and were continually at war,each hoping to obtain the supremacy and utterly destroythe other city. As the towns were only a short distanceapart they could often pounce upon each other unawares,and the inhabitants of Linz, knowing the people of Ander-nach were sound sleepers, and took special pleasure in pro-longing their morning nap, once resolved to attack them atdawn of day. r^^r . - r^ ^-* 3fr%fc5:_2j^ -^v. AND KRNACH. Watch Tower. ANDERNACH. 149 In silence the enemy stole up under the city wall, whichthey prepared to scale. Their attempt would probablyhave proved successful had it not been for the greediness oftwo baker lads, who had crept up into the tower to stealhoney from the hives which the watchman kept up there. Hearing a slight noise, and fearing the approach of thewatchman, the youths cautiously peered over the wall, andthus became aware of the enemys proximity. A momentlater, having thrown the hives down upon the foe, the boysrushing to the bell loudly rang the alarm. The Andernachers, springing out of bed, hurriedly donnedtheir armor, seized their weapons, and rushed out, but theirinterference was no longer necessary, as the infuriated beeshad already routed the enemy. In commemoration of this event, the statues of the twobaker lads have been placed just within the Andernach they can still be seen, exact effigies of the boys whocrept up th
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