The humour of Germany; . silent. Who could tell how this was coming out ? Suddenlya crimson flush came into his face, his eyes sparkled, hejumped up, and I, not knowing my man very well as yet,was beginning to fear for the peace, when he with enormousstrides, ay, with leaps like a panther, rushed straight acrossthe room towards the corner which held the article beforedelicately referred to, and now followed a fit of coughingand sneezing intermingled with strange, wild, gurglingsounds, a perfect storm of rasping, rumbling, rattling, snarl-ing, groaning, and barking tones ; it was like a chorus
The humour of Germany; . silent. Who could tell how this was coming out ? Suddenlya crimson flush came into his face, his eyes sparkled, hejumped up, and I, not knowing my man very well as yet,was beginning to fear for the peace, when he with enormousstrides, ay, with leaps like a panther, rushed straight acrossthe room towards the corner which held the article beforedelicately referred to, and now followed a fit of coughingand sneezing intermingled with strange, wild, gurglingsounds, a perfect storm of rasping, rumbling, rattling, snarl-ing, groaning, and barking tones ; it was like a chorus ofinfernal spirits. It took considerable time for this terrific 158 GERMAN HUMOUR. natural phenomenon to pass over; then the sufferer feeblyraised his head, seized his hat, bag, and cane, and said tome in a pitiful, broken treble, Will you have the goodnessto appease the gentleman? Good morning to you both. Friedrich Theodoi- Vischer (1807-1889). HIS SERENITY WILL BUILD A PALACE. 159 HIS SERENITY Will BUILD A PALACE. [ 1. II HIS HIGHNESS ADOLF FRIEDRICH IV. TREMBLED FROM TOP TO TOE. TT was in the year 1700 and something or other, on a pleasant May day about bed-time, that his Serene Highness the Duke of JMecklenberg-Strelitz, Adolf Friedrich, l6o GERMAN HUMOUR. fourth of the name, and his dear sister, the Princess Ciiristel, were sitting side by side in their palace tehing each othertrue ghost stories, thriUing yarns that nobody under the sunwould have believed if they hadnt really happened ; andthey both sat shivering, more especially his Serenity AdolfFriedrich. Suddenly through the still summer evening there came asound across the lake, a most uncanny sound, a sound thatnone but the most masculine ghost would be guilty of tofrighten a poor mortal out of his seven wits. With a hollowcadence long drawn out did it pass over the whole of Neu-Strelitz, and the princely pair could not for the life of themsay whether it came from up in the air or from underneaththe earth. It was al
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