The humour of Germany; . public common; make amerry day of it, and then take the tents to make clothes outof them. To all schoolmasters of our dukedom I bequeatha Louis dor apiece; and to the Jews of the place I bequeathmy pew in church. As I desire to have my testamentsub-divided into paragraphs, this may be considered as thefirst. Paragraph 2.—Declarations of inheritance and dis-inheritance are universally counted among the essentials ofa testament. I therefore bequeath to the Right Reverend VAN DER KABELS WILL. 31 Glanz, the Court-attorney Knoll, the Court-agent PeterNeupeter, the Police-in
The humour of Germany; . public common; make amerry day of it, and then take the tents to make clothes outof them. To all schoolmasters of our dukedom I bequeatha Louis dor apiece; and to the Jews of the place I bequeathmy pew in church. As I desire to have my testamentsub-divided into paragraphs, this may be considered as thefirst. Paragraph 2.—Declarations of inheritance and dis-inheritance are universally counted among the essentials ofa testament. I therefore bequeath to the Right Reverend VAN DER KABELS WILL. 31 Glanz, the Court-attorney Knoll, the Court-agent PeterNeupeter, the Police-inspector Harprecht, the PreacherFlachs, the Bookseller Pasvogel, and Herr Flitte, nothing forthe present, not so much because the most distant relativescan lay no claim to a Trebellianica, nor because most ofthem have enough to pass on to future generations as it is,but mainly because I know from their own assurance thatthey esteem my humble person more than my largefortune, of which 1 must therefore dispose CkB-n SEVEN ELONGATED FACES HERE STARTED UP. Seven elongated faces here started up. Especiallydid the Right Reverend Glanz, a young man notedthroughout Germany for his spoken and printed sermons,feel himself keenly injured by such sneers. Flitte, fromElsass, permitted a whispered oath to escape his lips; andas for Flachs, the preacher, his chin grew longer and longer,and threatened to grow into a beard. Many a whisperedejaculation was overheard by the magistrate addressing the ^2 GERMAN HUMOUR. late Heir Kabel by such appellatives as scoundrel, fool,antichrist. But the ruling burgomaster waved his hand,the court-attorney and the bookseller set all the elasticsprings in their faces as in a trap once more, and theformer continued reading albeit with affected seriousness. Paragraph 3.—Excepting my present residence in theHundgasse, which, according to this third paragraph, Iwill leave, with all that pertains thereto, to that one of theafore-mentioned seven gentl
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