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Updated: June 11, 2025
Afar from honks of motor cars, and all the city's clamor, I'd like to sleep beneath the stars, and feel no katzenjammer when in the vernal dawn I wake, as chipper as the foxes, to eat my frugal oatmeal cake put up in paper boxes. I fain would revel in the breeze that blows across the clover, and drink from brooks, with stately trees, like Druids, bending over.
To tell the truth, I've had an intimation from the State Department unofficially, of course that whenever a soldier of fortune demands a fleet of gunboats in a case of revolutionary katzenjammer, I should cut the cable, give him all the tobacco he wants, and after he's shot take his clothes, if they fit me, for part payment of my salary. "'Consul, says I to him, 'this is a serious question.
"The Persians call it bidamag buden, The Germans say 'Katzenjammer." * Strauss quotes this himself, and is not ashamed. As for us, we turn aside for a moment, that we may overcome our loathing. VII. As a matter of fact, our Philistine captain is brave, even audacious, in words; particularly when he hopes by such bravery to delight his noble colleagues the "We," as he calls them.
An attack of katzenjammer such as is scarcely ever spared worldly people of forty threw a sobering shadow upon this event. The shadow crept forward too, and presaged annoyance. He was such an old hand now, and didn't even know into what category she really fitted.
Alas! what is history and the progress of the arts and sciences but one long Katzenjämmer! Photography cannot give, any more than I, the colors of the frescos, but it can do the drawing better, and, I suspect, the spirit also.
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