Crossword-Solution: KESSEL 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

DEAREST MOTHER, Till this last week, the weather was pertinaciously cold and windy; and I had resolved to go to Worcester, which lies in a ‘Kessel’, and is really hot.

King, as we said above, dines with his Baron von Hocke, at the Schloss of Deutsch-Kessel, short way beyond Grunberg, this first day: but he by no means loiters there;--cuts across, a dozen miles westward, through a country where his vanguard on its various lines of march ought to be arriving;--and goes to lodge, at the Schloss of Schweinitz, with his other Baron, the Von Kestlitz of Wednesday at Crossen.

Nun sag mir eins, man soll kein Wunder glauben! Hexenküche Auf einem niedrigen Herd steht ein großer Kessel über dem Feuer.

Zieh deinen Kreis, sprich deine Sprüche, Und gib ihm eine Tasse voll! (Die Hexe, mit seltsamen Gebärden, zieht einen Kreis und stellt wunderbare Sachen hinein; indessen fangen die Gläser an zu klingen, die Kessel zu tönen, und machen Musik.

Kessel, just outside Louvain, was taken on the 10th, but German reinforcements began to arrive on the 11th, and two days later the Belgians were back in their positions on the Nethe, their retirement being marked, as before, by a fresh series of German atrocities.