Identifier: humourofgermany00mlrich (find matches)
Title: The humour of Germany;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Müller-Casenov, Hans Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund), 1870-1938
Subjects: German wit and humor
Publisher: London, The Walter Scott publishing co., ltd New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ve put up all the mummery, andthe carpenter says it looks for all the world like a bird-cage. Gracious goodness ! Did you hear that ? Did youhear it, I say ? Its here already ! Where can the Kon-rektor be ? I am going into my cabinet. Send for theKonrektor. Dont go so fast ! Dont go so fast! Thelightning will catch. Oh, goodness me! he said quitetremulously ; and here I am calling so loud ! The lackey met the Konrektor on the market-place, thedoor was opened, just a trifle, according to the Dukesorders, so that there should be no draught, and the Konrektorcrowded in with his fox-tail and the rest of it. He nowentered his Highnesss cabinet, and the sight he saw puthim at first quite out of countenance. For a moment hestood bewildered in the door, and stared into the cabinetopen-mouthed, then all at once he broke into a perfect roarof laughter. AVhat the devil have we here? Begging your Gracespardon! But what in the name of goodness can thismean ? ins SERENITY AND THE THUNDER-STORM. I/l
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HE BROKE INTO A PERFECTROAR OF LAUGHTER. And Randlaughed too, andsaid, Ay, you may well say so ! I dont know but what I should have forgotten the dutifulrespect I owed his most Serene Highness if I had beencalled upon to behold what the Konrektor beheld. Rightin the middle of the room there was a small platform restingon the necks of bottles, on top of that a sort of pavilionmade of glass that came down to the floor, and roofed overwith a light-blue silk tent, that looked like a parasol forfifteen persons, and in this remarkable affair sat his High- 172 GERMAN HUMOUR. ness in his innocent terror, clothed in a yellow silk dressing-gown, with a green silk nightcap on his head, and with apair of shoes on his feet varnished with red sealing-wax.He looked for all the world like a handsome canary with agreen top-knot, that had been put in a cage to sing a sweetsong; and he might have begun singing at any moment ifonly he had felt less down at the mouth. In his quality as sovereign lord he w

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