Chapter XII. -- BRANDENBURG IN KAISER KARL'S TIME; END OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS.

Kaiser Ludwig died in 1347, while the False Waldemar was still busy. We saw Karl IV., Johann of Bohemia's second son, come to the Kaisership thereupon, Johann's eldest Nullity being omitted. This Fourth Karl,--other three Karls are of the Charlemagne set, Karl the Bald, the Fat, and such like, and lie under our horizon, while CHARLES FIFTH is of a still other set, and known to everybody,--this Karl IV. is the Kaiser who discovered the Well of KARLSBAD (Bath of Karl), known to Tourists of this day; and made the GOLDEN BULL, which I forbid all Englishmen to take for an agricultural Prize Animal, the thing being far other, as is known to several.

There is little farther to be said of Karl in Reichs-History. An unesteemed creature; who strove to make his time peaceable in this world, by giving from the Holy Roman Empire with both hands to every bull-beggar, or ready-payer who applied. Sad sign what the Roman Empire had come and was coming to. The Kaiser's shield, set up aloft in the Roncalic Plain in Barbarossa's time, intimated, and in earnest too, "Ho, every one that has suffered wrong!"--intimates now, "Ho, every one that can bully me, or has money in his pocket!" Unadmiring posterity has confirmed the nickname of this Karl IV.; and calls him PFAFFEN-KAISER. He kept mainly at Prag, ready for receipt of cash, and holding well out of harm's way. In younger years he had been much about the French Court; in Italy he had suffered troubles, almost assassinations; much blown to and fro, poor light wretch, on the chaotic Winds of his Time,--steering towards no star.

1. Who was second born?
2. And his father was?
3. Who died in the 1300's?
4. What was still hectic at the time?
5. How did Karl get the Kaisership?
6. How many Karl's are there?
7. What are the Charlemagne Charles known as?
8. Are they above the horizon?
9. Which Karl discovered a well?
10. What was it known as?
11. Do people still know about it?
12. What were people told they could not do?
13. In what type of history is there not much to be said of him?
14. Who did he give to?
15. Where did he get what he gave them?
16. What was on the Roncalic plain?
17. Was it something to be feared?
18. WHhen did this happen?
19. What is his nickname?
20. Where was usually at?
1. Karl IV.
2. Johann of Bohemia
3. Kaiser Ludwig
4. Winds of his Time
5. he eldest son was omitted
6. four
7. Karl the Bald and the Fat
8. no
9. Karl IV.
10. Well of KARLSBAD
11. yes
12. take the Golden Bull for an agricultural Prize Animal
13. Reichs-History
14. bull-beggars and ready-payers
15. the Holy Roman Empire
16. The Kaiser's shield
17. yes
18. now
19. PFAFFEN-KAISER
20. Prag