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Humorous Account Of The Tipplers In Germany.
not tell : in short , I crept under the tun * , and there hoped to hid « myself ; but it was a fruitless precaution ; there ' s no avoiding a man ' s destiny . It was my fate at last to be carried out of the vault and to know nothing of the matter ; for the elector perceiving I was gone , I heard him say , Where is be ? What ' s become of him ? Lei him be looked afterand brought to medead or aliveThe
, up , . guards at the vault door being examined , said , that I came that way in order to go out , but that they had sent me back again . All these enquiries , which I very well heard , made me burrow the closer . I crept under the covert of a few boards I met with , where nothing but a cat , devil , or page , could possibly find me out ; but a little page , who wasindeedboth devil and tooferreted me outand
, , page , , bawled out ps if he was mad , Here he is ! here he is 1 and then I ¦ was dragged from my concealment . Imagine to yourself what a silly figure 1 made . I was carried before my judge , who was the elector himself , but I took the liberty to challenge both him and all the
s-entlemen of his retinue as being parties in the cause . Very well , my little gentleman , said the prince to me , you refuse us for your judges ; I will appoint you others , then , and we shall see whether you will come ' off any better . He then nominated his daughter and her ladies to try me , the elector being my accuser . After pleading my own cause they put it to the vote , and I was condemned to drink as long as I could swallow
. The elector said , that , as he was the sovereign , he . would mitigate my sentence ; that I should only that day drink four pint glasses of wine , and that for a fortni ght to come I should drink the like number every day after dinner to such healths as he should propose . Every bod y admired the elector ' s clemency , and whether I did or not I was forced to return him thanks . Then I underwent
the heaviest part of my sentence ; I did not lose my life , indeed , but for some hours I lost both my speech and my reason . I was carried to a bed where , when I came to myself , I was told that my accusers were in the same condition I was , and that not one of them went out of the vault in the manner they entered it . Next day the elector was so good as to mitigate the remaining part of my sentence , and excused frothe
me m penance to which I was condemned , upon my . promise of making one at his table for a month to come . I am , & c . & c .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Humorous Account Of The Tipplers In Germany.
not tell : in short , I crept under the tun * , and there hoped to hid « myself ; but it was a fruitless precaution ; there ' s no avoiding a man ' s destiny . It was my fate at last to be carried out of the vault and to know nothing of the matter ; for the elector perceiving I was gone , I heard him say , Where is be ? What ' s become of him ? Lei him be looked afterand brought to medead or aliveThe
, up , . guards at the vault door being examined , said , that I came that way in order to go out , but that they had sent me back again . All these enquiries , which I very well heard , made me burrow the closer . I crept under the covert of a few boards I met with , where nothing but a cat , devil , or page , could possibly find me out ; but a little page , who wasindeedboth devil and tooferreted me outand
, , page , , bawled out ps if he was mad , Here he is ! here he is 1 and then I ¦ was dragged from my concealment . Imagine to yourself what a silly figure 1 made . I was carried before my judge , who was the elector himself , but I took the liberty to challenge both him and all the
s-entlemen of his retinue as being parties in the cause . Very well , my little gentleman , said the prince to me , you refuse us for your judges ; I will appoint you others , then , and we shall see whether you will come ' off any better . He then nominated his daughter and her ladies to try me , the elector being my accuser . After pleading my own cause they put it to the vote , and I was condemned to drink as long as I could swallow
. The elector said , that , as he was the sovereign , he . would mitigate my sentence ; that I should only that day drink four pint glasses of wine , and that for a fortni ght to come I should drink the like number every day after dinner to such healths as he should propose . Every bod y admired the elector ' s clemency , and whether I did or not I was forced to return him thanks . Then I underwent
the heaviest part of my sentence ; I did not lose my life , indeed , but for some hours I lost both my speech and my reason . I was carried to a bed where , when I came to myself , I was told that my accusers were in the same condition I was , and that not one of them went out of the vault in the manner they entered it . Next day the elector was so good as to mitigate the remaining part of my sentence , and excused frothe
me m penance to which I was condemned , upon my . promise of making one at his table for a month to come . I am , & c . & c .