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By the way, what hotel are you stopping at?" "The Goldene Esel." "How is it?" "Oh, so-so. Ask for oatmeal at breakfast and they send to the livery stable for a peck of oats and ask you please to be so kind as to show them how to make it." "My hotel is even worse. Last night I got into such a sweat under the big German feather bed that I had to throw it off.
"Leon mamma I got out here an old friend Sol Ginsberg you remember, mamma, from brasses " "Abrahm not now " "Go way with your 'not now! I want Leon should meet him. Sol, this is him a little grown-up from such a Nebich like you remember him nu? Sarah, you remember Sol Ginsberg? Say I should ask you if you remember your right hand? Ginsberg & Esel, the firm.
"Dummer Kerl!" said the bird-faced man suddenly in a tone of concentrated malignancy, glaring under his bandages. "Esel!" "That's German for silly ass! I know. But who's the silly ass 'im or me? When I was a kid, I used to read penny dreadfuls about 'avin adventures and bein' a great c'mander and all that rot. I stowed it. But what's 'e got in 'is head?
A story was told at the time about a couple of German officers, one of them attached to the embassy, who happening to find themselves face to face with an individual presenting a striking likeness to the kaiser, save for the fact that his moustache was twisted downwards instead of upwards, and his hair brushed in a different way, lost to such an extent their presence of mind that they could not help drawing their heels together and standing at attention; a form of courtesy which received as its only response the muttered exclamation of "Verdammte Esel!" which may be translated: "Accursed jackasses!"
They were sermons. The early Swiss translation has been duly noted. The third volume of the Zürich edition, which appeared in 1769, contained the “Reden an Esel,” which the reviewer in the Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek with acute penetration designates as spurious.
No drive is too long or difficult for the horses if I want to take it, no place impossible to reach if I want to go to it, no weather or roads too bad to prevent my going out if I wish to: to all my suggestions he responds with the readiest cheerfulness, and smoothes away all objections raised by the Man of Wrath, who rewards his alacrity in doing my pleasure by speaking of him as an alter Esel.
The German students have a witty trick with this echo: they call out, "Who is the Burgomaster of Oberwesel?" a town just above. The echo answers with the last syllable "Esel!" which is the German for ass.
You remember, mamma, from brasses " "Abrahm not now " "Go 'way with your 'not now'! I want Leon should meet him. Sol, this is him a little grown up from such a nebich like you remember him nu? Sarah, you remember Sol Ginsberg? Say I should ask you if you remember your right hand! Ginsberg & Esel, the firm.
The bank of the river on the right rises abruptly to a great height, and the precipice is called the Lurlei. It has an echo which gives back fifteen repetitions of the original sound. It sometimes makes intelligent replies; and wicked students put to it the question, "Who is the burgomaster of Oberwesel?" To which it responds, "Esel," which, in English, means an ass.
Wawruch fared poorly at his hands, especially when he was in a bad humor. On more than one occasion when the latter appeared the patient turned his face to the wall with the remark, "Ach der Esel." Everything possible was now done to add to his comfort. Two servants were engaged to attend him. His friends cheered him by their visits. Hümmel called, bringing his young pupil Ferdinand Hiller.
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