I wish you had run all risks, and cudgelled the old burgomaster soundly.

I wish you had run all risks, and cudgelled the old burgomaster, stadholder, or whatever else he may be, soundly.

By this chance he heard the whole story from my knave, and related it afterwards to the old burgomaster in Stargard.

What would the old burgomaster think now of the mounting palaces of trade, stately apartments, and the piled up stories of commercial buildings?

The fiery old burgomaster flung himself on his mule, and, spurring him to a gallop, he headed not his own men only, but the fugitives.

"Yes, as an old Burgomaster, or something with a ruff," and he kicked an army blanket into a corner as he spoke.