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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as could play on the Jews-harp;but that now, after all, she had come to the conclusion thatdreams are flighty, especially the dreams of youth. She sawnow, she said, that the realisation of her wish was quite outof the question, and as she had taken a fancy to the kingshe was willing to have him. Then the minister drove home as fast as his horses wouldgo, and the king embraced him, and gave him a tremendousmedal to wear about his neck. Bright flags decorated thetown, garlands were hung from house to house across thestreets, and altogether the wedding was such a splendidaffair that nothing else was talked of for the next fortnight. The king and the young queen lived in a state of blissand rapture for the space of an entire year. The king neverthought of ginger-nuts, and that little matter of the Jews-harp had quite slipped out of the queens mind. But one morning the king got up with his wrong leg flrst,and everything went wrong. It rained the whole day long; THE KING OF MACCAROONIA. 229
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WITHOUT ANOTHER WORD THEY BOTH WALKED AWAY. 230 GERMAN HUMOUR. the imx-)erial globe fell down, and the little cross on top of itbroke off; then the court painter came and brought the newmap of the kingdom, and when the king looked at it hefound that the land was painted red instead of blue, as hehad ordered it; and besides all this, the queen had aheadache. So it happened that the couple had their first quarrel;what it was all about they themselves did not know nextmorning, or if they did know it they did not want to say.In short, the king grumbled and the queen pouted andwould always have the last word. After they had wrangledfor some time, the queen shrugged her shoulders con-temptuously and said— It seems to me you might be silent, and stop findingfault with everything you set your eyes on, when you yourselfdont even know how to play on the Jews-harp. But no sooner were the words out of her mouth than theking petulantly interrupted her with the words, And youcannot so much as bak

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