Part 22
Now if your house vas burgled, I’ll bet upon my life, If der burgular should shoot your son, likevise pesides your wife, Dough he fought like der fery teufel, you hardly would fergive Der feller for all his pravery, and hope dot he might live!
But de cent in de molasses barrel, or de secret hid away Is dis--dot de Germans wantet for demselfs Sout’ Africa; Dey hat hopes dot a dime was comin’ when ofer all de land Dere wouldt rise a schmell of sauer kraut to der Medit’ranean.
Yoost as Fra Benevento, in his elegie sublime, Did hope der schmell of incense wouldt rise in efery clime, From blesset Roman Churches, so de Deutschers von and all Did dink dis blesset nonsense wouldt cerdainly pefal!
As for de liddle Fräntshmen, it is as plain as sin, Dey wanted Jean Boule out of Egypt, likewise demselfs darein’; Dough vot dey’d do if dey got dere is not fery blain to see: Dot is to judge by deir sookcess in any colonie.
Keep up dy heart, O England; maintain dy glorious pluck! Der von who bears most poundin’ is der von who gets de luck! For it is of ancient story und splendid as de stars: It is efer de freest people who endure de bitterest wars!
Keep up dy heart, O Britain, despite de envious jeers Of German, French or Dago, of suffering and tears; Whatefer fools have said to thee of errors in the past, Thou art Gott’s best civiliser, and wilt conquer at the last!
Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, (late) Printers to Her Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- An em-dash was added to the epigraph in “Flaxius in India.”
- In “Flaxius and the Bookseller,” there is blockquote with long s (ſ). These have been retained since they seem to be an intended artistic decision.
- Some clear misspellings and wrong capitalizations were changed. Other inconsistent spelling and usage of diacritical marks in the original text have been preserved.
- Text between _underscores_ represents italics. Text between ~tilde symbols~ represent Blackletter.
- Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of their sections.