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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OFF I WENT IN A FULL CANTER. Stay with me, until it was once more my lawful property. I hold you by your shadow, he added; and you will not escape me. A rich man like you cannot get on without a shadow. You are to be blamed in so far as you did not find that out before. von Chamisso (i 781-1838). 66 GERMAN HUMOUR.
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THE GHOST OF DR. ASCHER. THE night I spent at Goslar something very remarkable occurred. Terror seizes me even now as I think back. I am not timid by nature, but I have a mortal terror of ghosts. What is fear? Is it a product of the understanding or of the soul? About this question I had many a discussion with Dr. Saul Ascher in Berlin when we met in the Cafe Royal, where I used to dine. He would have THE GHOST OF DR. ASCHER. Be it that we fear a thing because our reason recognises there in due cause for terror. While I was eating and drinking to my satisfaction he was fond of constantly demonstrating the fine qualities of Reason. Toward the end of his demonstration he would look at his watch, and he always ended with: Reason is the highest principle! Reason! When I so much as hear the word I see before me Dr. Ascher with his abstract legs, his tight waistcoat of transcendental grey, and his harsh bitter cold face, which might have served as a title vignette to a book on geometry. The man was a

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