-but not quite--to
touch the uvula, try with the tip of your tongue to reach your thyroid.
Take a deep breath, and compress your glottis. Now, without opening your
lips, say 'Garoo.'"

And when you have done it they are not satisfied.

CHAPTER XIII

An examination into the character and behaviour of the German student--The
German Mensur--Uses and abuses of use--Views of an impressionist--The
humour of the thing--Recipe for making savages--The Jungfrau: her
peculiar taste in laces--The Kneipe--How to rub a Salamander--Advice to
the stranger--A story that might have ended sadly--Of two men and two
wives--Together with a bachelor.

On our way home we included a German University town, being wishful to
obtain an insight into the ways of student life, a curiosity that the
courtesy of German friends enabled us to gratify.

The English boy plays till he is fifteen, and works thence till twenty.
In Germany it is the child that works; the young man that plays. The
German boy goes to school at seven o'clock in the summer, at eight in the
winter, and at school he studies. The result is that at sixteen he has a
thorough knowledge of the classics and mathematics, knows as much history
as any man compelled to belong to a political party is wise in knowing,
together with a thorough grounding in modern languages. Therefore his
eight College Semesters, extending over four years, are, except for the
young man aiming at a professorship, unnecessarily ample. He is not a
sportsman, which is a pity, for he should make good one. He plays
football a little, bicycles still less; plays French billiards in stuffy
cafes more. But generally speaking he, or the majority of him, lays out
his time bummeling, beer drinking, and fighting. If he be the son of a
wealthy father he joins a Korps--to belong to a crack Korps costs about
four hundred pounds a year. If he be a middle-class young man, he enrols
himself in a Burschenschaft, or a Landsmannschaft, which is a little
cheaper. These companies are again broken up into smaller circles, in
which attempt is made to keep to nationality. There are the Swabians,
from Swabia; the Frankonians, descendants of the Franks; the Thuringians,
and so forth. In practice, of course, this results as all such attempts
do result--I believe half our Gordon Highlanders are Cockneys--but the
picturesque object is obtained of dividing each University into some
dozen or so separate companies of student