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Updated: June 12, 2025
The Emperor is almost the only man in Germany who knows what chaff is and when to use it. The more you know them, the longer you live among them, the less you laugh at "Verboten." The trouble is not that there are too many of these warnings, but that there are not enough! But you soon recover from this superficial view of matters Teutonic.
Rameses the Third of Egypt that enterprising old constant advertiser who swiped the pyramids of all his predecessors and had his own name engraved thereon had been dead for many centuries and was forgotten when Verboten mounted the throne, and our own Teddy Roosevelt would not be born for many centuries yet to come; so the idea must have occurred to King Verboten spontaneously, as it were.
Into the instrument on his chest he rapped a word of Orconese which was translated instantly into the German. "Verboten!" was the word. Forbidden! The Orconites were not taking any chances with us. It was discouraging, but no more than I had expected. It simply meant that if we were to be interfered with, we should have to do something about the interference. I quickly began to work out a plan.
In German you are not permitted to call an official a "silly ass," but undoubtedly this particular man was one. What had happened was this: Harris in the Stadgarten, anxious to get out, and seeing a gate open before him, had stepped over a wire into the street. Harris maintains he never saw it, but undoubtedly there was hanging to the wire a notice, "Durchgang Verboten!"
And I remembered that my hair was half down, trailing across my nose, and that three distinctly new freckles had shown themselves that week on the bridge of that same nose. "O God, but you're lovely!" he said in a half-smothered and shamefaced sort of whisper. "Verboten!" I reminded him. "And not so much the cussing, Peter, as the useless compliments."
It would seem that King Verboten was the first crowned head of Europe to learn the value of keeping his name constantly before the reading public.
Yeovil stared at the man and then turned to look at the small neatly-printed notice to which the official was imperiously pointing; in two languages it was made known that it was forbidden and verboten, punishable and straffbar, to walk on the grass. "Three shilling fine," said the policeman, extending his hand for the money.
It is all very well to experiment for oneself, but when one sees these dear things of one's own, so young and inexperienced and so capable of every sort of gallant foolishness, walking along the narrow plank, going down into dark jungles, ah! then it makes one want to wrap them in laws and foresight and fence them about with 'Verboten' boards in all the conceivable aspects...."
"They found four market-gardeners returning from the fields last night and shot them too they made them dig their own graves, and tied their hands behind their backs with their own scarves. I protested to a Staff officer; he said it was 'verboten' to dig potatoes. I said they did not know; how could they? He said they ought to know.
He could walk out of the door and out of the camp, at will, while I must sit on a chair without moving, his prisoner! Bah! He, with the stupid, verboten look in his face, was the bondsman! I was free! There were other guards, too, decent fellows who were glad to help us all they dared. But the fear of detection held them to their distasteful work.
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