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the present day still abound in Goettingen, where, separately distinguished by the color of their caps and pipe-tassels, they may be seen straying singly or in hordes along the Weender Street. They still fight their battles on the bloody arena of the _Rasenmill, Ritschenkrug_, and _Bovden_, still preserve the mode of life peculiar to their savage ancestors, and still, as at the time of the migrations, are governed partly by their _Duces_, whom they call "chief cocks," and partly by their primevally ancient law-book, known as the _Comment_, which fully deserves a place among the _leges barbarorum_. The inhabitants of Goettingen are generally divided into Students, Professors, Philistines, and Cattle, the points of difference between these castes being by no means strictly defined. The "Cattle" class is the most important. I might be accused of prolixity should I here enumerate the names of all the students and of all the regular and irregular professors; besides, I do not just at present distinctly remember the appellations of all the former gentlemen; while among the professors are many who as yet have no name at all. The number of the Goettingen "Philistines" must be as numerous as the sands (or, more correctly speaking, as the mud) of the seashore; indeed, when I beheld them of a morning, with their dirty faces and clean bills, planted before the gate of the collegiate court of justice, I wondered greatly that such an innumerable pack of rascals should ever have been created by the Almighty. [Illustration: MARKET PLACE GOeTTINGEN] * * * * * It was as yet very early in the morning when I left Goettingen, and the learned ----, beyond doubt, still lay in bed, dreaming as usual that he wandered in a fair garden, amid the beds of which grew innumerable white papers written over with citations. On these the sun shone cheerily, and he plucked up several here and there and laboriously planted them in new beds, while the sweetest songs of the nightingales rejoiced his old heart. Before the Weender Gate I met two small native schoolboys, one of whom was saying to the other, "I don't intend to keep company any more with Theodore; he is a low blackguard, for yesterday he didn't even know the genitive of _Mensa_." Insignificant as these words may appear, I still regard them as entitled to be recorded--nay, I would even write them as town-motto on the gate of Goettingen, for the young birds
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