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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tut, the lady said, we know all that. So please forgive him then, and heres a tart, and eating it will give you pleasure more than you can tell. Madam, after recovering from a hearty laugh, then said: Well, tell your master we will talk about that at some future time, and here is for your trouble. She laid a thaler in his hand, and hoped that now he would leave her in peace. But no, Joching stood quite still, and held his hand up to his face, and gave a furtive peep at it again and again, as if this were the first and only thaler he had ever seen. Why do you stand there ? What is it you are waiting for ? the lady asked, at last struck by his manner. Your difficulties are all straightened now. Nay, said good Joching doubtfully, this is but one; the tart alone cost three. Fritz Renter. THE HIGHER ALTRUISM. I8l THE HIGHER ALTRUISM. C^ OOD morning to you, apothecary. Tell me now, do-^ you know of aught thats good for headache day ? My lad, it is a sore complaint that; one of the worst of
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smell of this bottle as hard as eer you can. 182 GERMAN HUMOUR. ills that flesh is heir to. Well, sit you down a bit. Areyou from the- manor ? Yes, sir; Im one of the farm-servants there. And do the headache days come often ? Well, no, but when they do they come bad. Well soon manage them, my lad. Come here now,and first shut both your eyes. There, that is right. Now,quick; smell of this bottle as hard as eer you can. The fellow did precisely as he said. First shut his eyesand smelled right heartily of what was in the bottle; andwith a heavy thud he fell from off his chair. And as hewas beginning to come to, says the apothecary, Now,my lad, tell me is your headache day now gone ? Oh, sir, its not of me that I was talking. Its ouryoung lady has her headache day. Fritz Renter. MY PICTURES^ CT O I took to painting, and particularly to making portraits. ^^ My old friend G was the first to have his turn. I sketched him from the right and from the left, from thefront and from the back, in l

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