nuine or not. When visiting such a household late at night it is well
to be acquainted with this code, or you may, if persistent, get a bucket
of water thrown over you.

Also the German student is allowed to put out lights at night, but there
is a prejudice against his putting out too many. The larky German
student generally keeps count, contenting himself with half a dozen
lights per night. Likewise, he may shout and sing as he walks home, up
till half-past two; and at certain restaurants it is permitted to him to
put his arm round the Fraulein's waist. To prevent any suggestion of
unseemliness, the waitresses at restaurants frequented by students are
always carefully selected from among a staid and elderly classy of women,
by reason of which the German student can enjoy the delights of
flirtation without fear and without reproach to anyone.

They are a law-abiding people, the Germans.

CHAPTER X

Baden from the visitor's point of view--Beauty of the early morning, as
viewed from the preceding afternoon--Distance, as measured by the
compass--Ditto, as measured by the leg--George in account with his
conscience--A lazy machine--Bicycling, according to the poster: its
restfulness--The poster cyclist: its costume; its method--The griffin as
a household pet--A dog with proper self-respect--The horse that was
abused.

From Baden, about which it need only be said that it is a pleasure resort
singularly like other pleasure resorts of the same description, we
started bicycling in earnest. We planned a ten days' tour, which, while
completing the Black Forest, should include a spin down the Donau-Thal,
which for the twenty miles from Tuttlingen to Sigmaringen is, perhaps,
the finest valley in Germany; the Danube stream here winding its narrow
way past old-world unspoilt villages; past ancient monasteries, nestling
in green pastures, where still the bare-footed and bare-headed friar, his
rope girdle tight about his loins, shepherds, with crook in hand, his
sheep upon the hill sides; through rocky woods; between sheer walls of
cliff, whose every towering crag stands crowned with ruined fortress,
church, or castle; together with a blick at the Vosges mountains, where
half the population is bitterly pained if you speak to them in French,
the other half being insulted when you address them in German, and the
whole indignantly contemptuous at the first sound of English; a state of
things that renders conversation with