Oh, what a leg he has!
The old kangaroo jumper”—
and compares it to a scene before the door of a school in Berlin where a troop of children followed a little lame girl, calling out:
“Aetsch, ätsch, ätsch,
Anna has a crooked leg,
Aetsch, ätsch, ätsch.”[468]
Scornful speech among the common people is more than teasing. I must confine myself to only one or two examples of this important group. The above will suffice as an instance of the common jeering at physical infirmity.
Banter between the sexes begins even in childhood. In
Alsace the little girls sing a rhyme which recalls the English