“ ‘Dot wart? It don’t look vell. But how ish dot wart to be got off? Der hint leg oof a helty mule isn’t der pesht blace to go foolin rount.’
“Lilienthal vas a most berseverin’ man. He sait:
“ ‘It’s der easiest ting vot efer vos. You come up behint dot mule mit a red hot iron and burn off der wart. De mule is vort a huntret tollars more ash he vas.’
“Cohen triet it der next tay, unt hish funeral vash der piggest vot dey efer hat in Shalesfille. Lilienthal attented it hisself in two carriages, an’ he vent right along and did all de peesness, and at a goot brofit, vor he hedn’t no gompetishun. Lilienthal vosh a berseverin’ man, Abram. Der ain’t notting in peesness like berseverance. Remember dot.”
THE RÖMER.
In a historic point of view, very interesting is the Römer, or Council Hall, erected about the year 1406. It faces the Römerberg, and its three pointed gables give it a picturesque appearance. In the principal hall on the second floor are “Portraits of the Emperors,” beginning with Charlemagne (768-814),
