Identifier: seeningermany00bakerich (find matches)
Title: Seen in Germany
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946
Subjects: Germany -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, Harper
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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licked their heels, andbowed, also with solemnity. We took our places onthe presidents right. A huge tin pot of beer stoodin the middle of the table, and we were served withsquat wooden mugs, having curious flapper topsornamented with initials and the mvsterious geo-metric symbols of the corps. The president liftedhis mug and said, Prosit. We all lifted our mugsin response, and the initial ceremony was over. TheGerman student is a man of many formalities. At first we had seen no evidences of the duelswhich we had come to see. Everything seemedperfectly amicable and tranquil. A rosy-cheekedmaid was serving sausages and rye bread, and thestudents were joking her good-naturedly. Appar-ently there was not even any talk of duelling. Butpresently a student surgeon came in wearing a longwhite blouse. His blue visor cap — the cap of hiscorps — was cocked jauntily on the back of his headand his arms, bare to the elbows, were blotched withblood. A little later still other surgeons appeared.
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\> 290 Seen in Germany- all more or less bloody, and then we saw a studentwith sundry patches of cotton on his head and face,bound down with black bandages fastened under hischin. The portions of his face left exposed wereashy pale, but he walked steadily and wore his corpscap with spirit, if a bit comically, on top of hisbandages. These students took their places at thevarious tables without eliciting especial interest. Itso happened that the wounded duellist belonged tothe Hanoverians, and when he took his place at ourtable his fellow-corpsmen raised their mugs ceremoni-ously in his honor, and he responded promptlv,drinking as long as the best of them. We wereinformed that it had been a good duel; a Hano-verian explained with some show of pride that theother duellist was not yet able to appear. All ofwhich was illuminating. It seemed that we had arrived in the recess be-tween two duels. After a hard battle it takes sometime for the surgeons to do their work, and while thisis goin

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