Or as three oxen, fully,
If I should suffer such a pass
From this Studenten bully.
We, in conclusion may mention among the summer pleasures of the student, the game at nine-pins, to which the son of Minerva devotes many an hour. Yet to describe the various kinds of this game, would prove, probably, a little wearisome. The student uses the same as all the other classes of people in Germany, and which are, perhaps, already familiar to the foreigner.
[CHAPTER XI.]
WINTER AMUSEMENTS OF THE STUDENT.
He who lives out of himself, always does better than he who lives in himself.
Seume.
Let us now devote a few pages to the pleasures of winter. If we give a distinguished place amongst these, to the amusements which the Museum, and many private circles afford, we must at the same time admit that particular circumstances prevent the students to any great extent seeking the latter. But as these circles are easy of access to the well-bred student even without letters of introduction, if he is at the pains to seek that introduction himself, we can by no means omit their mention. In the houses of professors and other leading families of the place, the student is hospitably received. Reading, music, social games, and the dance, here furnish an inexhaustible source of entertainment. Here he finds an opportunity to accomplish himself in social habits, and by polishing the rough outside to discover that solid interior which can best be strengthened and perfected by a union of active intercourse with knowledge; and who will deny that this desirable condition is alone to be attained by the society of refined and accomplished women?
With softest persuasion and gentlest prayers,
The sceptre of manners sweet Woman still bears;
Extinguishes discord, which ragingly glows--
Teaches wild powers that malignantly fight.
Themselves in her own lovely form to unite,
And combines what in nature else separately flows.