The humour of Germany; . ed about tyranny, interference withpersonal freedom, scolded his wife, and flogged all theyoung Schnorpses; but there was no help for it—the acquisi-tion of a new coat loomed upon the horizon as an inexorablenecessity. And now occurred what had never occurred before. Forseveral days in succession the townspeople saw the bassviolinist Schnorps and his spouse walk about from oneclothing shop to another. In each one they entered intolengthy negotiations, only to pass on after a time grumblingand scolding about the outrageous prices, until at last thefirm of J. M. Lindenfe
The humour of Germany; . ed about tyranny, interference withpersonal freedom, scolded his wife, and flogged all theyoung Schnorpses; but there was no help for it—the acquisi-tion of a new coat loomed upon the horizon as an inexorablenecessity. And now occurred what had never occurred before. Forseveral days in succession the townspeople saw the bassviolinist Schnorps and his spouse walk about from oneclothing shop to another. In each one they entered intolengthy negotiations, only to pass on after a time grumblingand scolding about the outrageous prices, until at last thefirm of J. M. Lindenfeld had the good fortune to come toterms with Herr and Frau Schnorps about a new and hand-some swallow-tail coat. Ill tell you what, Sally, said the bass violinist oneday to his better-half; though Ive been forced by puretyranny to spend a sinful lot of money on that new dress-coat, theres no earthly reason why I shouldnt get all thegood I can out of the old one. I wish youd just send for O Dc SCHNORPS SWALLOW-TxVIL 343. IT WAS A D1SGR.\CE TO THE CORPORATION. 344 GERMAN HUMOUR. old Peter and tell him to make Michel a jacket out of it; itAvill last the boy many a year. Old Peter was a tailor whose chief art lay in mending andpatching up old garments, and Michel was the eldest sproutand heir pretendent to the bass viol of the Schnorpses. The tailor came, made a very close and conscientiousexamination of the old swallow-tail by the aid of a pair ofenormous horn spectacles, and finally declared, with greatdecision, that the article in question had had its day, andthat there was not the slightest possibility of renovating it. This was a terrible shock for Schnorps, for Petersjudgment was considered quite incontrovertible, and whenthere was anything to be made out of an old garment he didit. This he had proved time and time again in the ward-robe of the Schnorpses. So there was nothing for it but tostow away the old dress-coat among other venerable relics,and it might have stayed th
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