They drew the line at pigeons; and the Goth
When ’twas explained laughed loudest of them all;
And thus it was he learned another word.
And thus strange things do happen in the world.
| [12] | A very peculiar Viennese slang word, signifying stylish or elegant. It is supposed to be an abbreviation of the mispronunciation of the English word fashionable—Germanicé, feshionable. |
REFLECTIONS IN A PRINTING-OFFICE
Faust means a fist—a fist can hit, I ween:
Faust made the greatest hit that e’er was seen.
I know not if ’twas Guttenberg