Und so das Schlabbergaster deit!
(Plaintively)
Ach! weh das Niebelrungen spott
Ach! weh das Maedchein Turnverein
Und unser Meister lieben Gott—
Ach! weh das Weinerwurst und Wein!
Ach! weh das Bricht zum kleiner Geld—
Ach! weh das Schlabbergasterfeldt!
Ever after this Walters gallery incident it was my duty, so he thought, to keep Field's desk supplied with inks, not only of every color of the rainbow, but with lake-white, gold, silver, and bronze, and any other kind which his whim deemed necessary to give eccentric emphasis to some line, word or letter in whatever he chanced to be composing. His peremptory requests were generally preferred in writing, addressed "For the Lusty Knight, Sir Slosson Thompson, Office," and delivered by his grinning minion, the office factotum. Sometimes they were in verse, as in the following:
"Who spilt my bottle of ink?" said Field,