For sober men;
So I’ll turn back to
The tavern again.
The brothers, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, wrote much in collaboration beside their well-known Märchen or Fairy Tales.
Their humor is of the heavier sort, but their versatile erudition found opportunities for witty conceits.
EXCERPT FROM CLEVER GRETHEL
One day her master said to her, “Grethel, I have invited some friends to dinner to-day; cook me some of your best chickens.”
“That I will, master,” she replied.
So she went out, and killed two of the best fowls and prepared them for roasting.
In the afternoon she placed them on the spit before the fire, and they were all ready, and beautifully hot and brown by the proper time, but the visitors had not arrived. So she went to her master, and said, “The fowls will be quite spoiled if I keep them at the fire any longer. It will be a pity and a shame if they are not eaten soon!”