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attention: it looks singular; it is the
half-length figure of an old man in a shirt, lying
in his bed. It is that of the learned theologian,
Œdmann, who after he had been compelled to
keep his bed by a fever, found himself so
comfortable in it, that he continued to lie there
during the remainder of his long life, and was
not to be induced to get up. Even when the
next house was burning, they were obliged to
carry him out in his bed into the street. Death
and cold were his two bugbears. The cold
would kill him, was his opinion; and so, when
the students came with their essays and
treatises, the manuscripts were warmed at the
stove before he read them. The windows of
his room were never opened, so that there was
a suffocating and impure air in his dwelling.
He had a writing-desk on the bed; books and
manuscripts lay in confusion round about;
dishes, plates, and pots stood here or there, as
the convenience of the moment dictated, and
his only companion was a deaf and dumb
daughter.
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