What 'tis to eat black bread raised by their own hand.
Is a horse in the meadow, his strength to recruit?
The students soon seize on the poor weary brute,
They're up, and their heels in his sides go ding-dong,
Ah! might he, at least, but go slowly along!
Two centuries have produced a proportionate improvement in the students; though as full of fun as ever, the country people have nothing like the wanton mischief here recorded to fear from them.
The Commers then, being brought to a close, they generally return by boat to the city of the Muses. If this is in the evening, the barge is illuminated, and when they approach the city, fireworks are played off. As they land they proceed to their Kneip, and there wind up the feast. On the arrangements of a Kneip, nothing further is necessary to be said, as we, in becoming acquainted with the Beer-tablet, beheld the only particular in which it differs from other drinking-places; but, in speaking of the different drinks that are consumed in a Kneiping, we must not forget the Crambambuli. In order to prepare this liquor, an earthenware dish is used, into which a sufficient quantity of sugar is poured, and it is then filled up with rum. It is then set fire to; and the company, who sit round the flaming dish, sing--
[THE CRAMBAMBULI SONG.]
Crambambuli, this is the title
Of that good drink we love the best,