and compares it to a scene before the door of a school in Berlin where a troop of children followed a little lame girl, calling out: “Aetsch, ätsch, ätsch, Anna has a crooked leg, Aetsch, ätsch, ätsch.”[468] Scornful speech among the common people is more than teasing. I must confine myself to only one or two examples of this important group. The above will suffice as an instance of the common jeering at physical infirmity. Banter between the sexes begins even in childhood. In Alsace the little girls sing a rhyme which recalls the English “Girls are made of sugar and spice And all that’s nice; Boys are made of rats and snails And puppy dogs’ tails.” “Räge, Räge, Tropfe! D’Buäwe muess mä klopfe, D’Maidle kummen in Hommelbett, D’Buäwe kummen in Knotensäck!” While in Bohemia the boys have it— “Zeisig, Zeisig, Die Buben sind fleissig. Stieglitz, Stieglitz, Die Mädeln sind gar nichts nütz.”[469] “Boys are the busy ones, Goldfinch, goldfinch. Girls are no use at all.” At the festivals, and especially the weddings of mountain folk, the youths and maidens carry on a veritable poetic warfare, which sometimes becomes pretty severe. Ten different German tribes too had champions who sang in scornful contests like that of the two Greenland poets.[470] In trade rivalry the tailor suffers most. Religious differences have given rise to such jargon as this: “Franz Willwanz Willwippke Kadanz, Willwippke Kadippke Katholischer Franz!”[471]