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Il boit. De German, he looks to de end. Er sauft. De Englishman, he sits down fresh and intends to get fuddled; but he is a hypocrite. He does not say de truth to hisself nor to nobody, he says, I will get fresh, when he means de odder ding. Big humbug. You understand?" One morning my Jew friend said to me: "Do you want to see de, what you call behind-de-scenes of Florence?
They sang a song of East Prussia and raised their foaming glasses at the last two lines: "Es trinkt der Mensch, es sauft das Pferd, In Ostpreussen 1st das umgekehrt."
"I quite understand that it is to the interest of the taverner to make his customers drunk." "Drunk!" repeated my Mosaic acquaintance. "I will tell you one ding more, ver' characteristic of de nationalities. A Frenchman il boit; a German er sauft; and an Englishman he gets fresh. Der you hev de natures of de dree peoples as in a picture. De Frenchman, he looks to de moment, and not beyond.
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