Strange! I thought, what must that be? I opened a vesicle and carefully
lifted that little fleck with the knife into a watch glass filled with water,
which I then brought under the microscope. As I took a look at it
I jumped back as if struck by lightning, for I clearly saw a very small,
precisely formed yellow yolk orb. I had to recover before I had the
courage to look again, for I was worried that a phantom might have
deceived me. It seems strange that the sight of something which one has
expected and longed for can cause a fright when it is finally there.