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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THE GOAT RUNS ON AND NEVER TIRES. ST. PETERS LESSON, nPHE young goat had a playful mind,-*■ And never liked to be confined ;The apostle, at a killing pace,Followed the goat, in a desperate chase jOver the hills and among the briersThe goat runs on and never tires, ST. PETERS LESSON. While Peter, behind, on the grassy plain, Runs on, panting and sighing, in vain. All day, beneath a scorching sun. The good apostle had to run Till evening came ; the goat was caught, And safely to the Master brought. Then, with a smile, to Peter said The Lord : Well, friend, how have you sped ; If such a task your powers has tried. How could you keep the world, so wide? Then Peter, with his toil distressed, His folly, with a sigh, confessed, No, Master ! tis for me no play To rule one goat for one short day ; It must be infinitely worse To regulate the universe. Hans Sachs (1494-15 76). GERMAN HUMOUR.
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A RAID ON THE PARSONS KITCHEN. HE commandantat Soest lookedat me with approval,and said, Tut, littlehuntsman, you shall bemy servant, and waitupon my horses. Sir, I replied, Ishould prefer a masterin whose service the horses wait upon me. As it is notlikely I shall find such a one, I am going to be a soldier. Hoity-toity, he said, • you have no more hair on yourlip than a tree-frog. You are too young. A RAID ON THE PARSONS KITCHEN. ^ Oh, no, I replied, I will venture to brave any manof eighty. The beard does not make a man, else thehe-goats would be in high esteem. He said, If you can show courage as well as you canwag your tongue, so be it. I answered, The first opportunity shall furnish theproof. And so the commandant made over to me my dragoonsold trousers, in which my master had sewed a goodlynumber of ducats. Out of their vitals I provided myselfwith a good horse and the best fire-arms I could get; Ithereupon polished up my belongings to their utmostpossibility of brightness. I

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