text:  Travellers taking their road by night and in calm weather from _Bertsdorf_ to _Hoernitz_ or over the Breitenberg to _Gross-schoenau_ were arrested by the exquisite strains now touchingly plaintive now joyously merry that poured from Klaus's magical instrument; and many a happy soul allured by the enchanting melody lingered within sound of it until wholly subdued and rendered powerless by awe and superstitious fear