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THREE:500 Frederick also seized money wherever he could find it, whether in the hands of friend or foe. His contributions levied upon the Saxons were terrible. The cold and dreary winter passed rapidly away. The spring was late in that northern clime. It was not until the middle of June that either party was prepared vigorously to take the field. It was generally considered by the European world that Frederick was irretrievably ruined. In the last campaign he had lost sixty thousand men. Universal gloom and discouragement pervaded his kingdom. Still Frederick, by his almost superhuman exertions, had marshaled another army of one hundred thousand men. But the allies had two hundred and eighty thousand to oppose to them. Though Frederick in public assumed a cheerful and self-confident air, as if assured of victory, his private correspondence proves that he was, in heart, despondent in the extreme, and that scarcely a ray of hope visited his mind. To his friend D��Argens he wrote:��The king was fond of children; he liked to have his grand-nephews about him. One day, while the king sat at work in his cabinet, the younger of the two, a boy of eight or nine, was playing ball about the room, and knocked it once and again into the king��s writing operation, who twice or oftener flung it back to him, but next time put it in his pocket, and went on. ��Please your majesty, give it me back,�� begged the boy, and again begged: majesty took no notice; continued writing. Till at length came, in the tone of indignation, ��Will your majesty give me my ball, then?�� The king looked up; found the little Hohenzollern planted firm, hands on haunches, and wearing quite a peremptory562 air. ��Thou art a brave little fellow. They won��t get Silesia out of thee?�� cried he, laughing, and flinging him his ball.��194