"Let each man arm himself like me, with sturdy stang, And chase unto destruction the beastly Lumpen gang." 'Tis said and it is done! Bellona storms on high, And the battle is renewed with menace and reply. _Zachariæ's Renommist_. But bravery must yield to multitudes. They now begin to quit the bloody battle-field, Yet slowly draw they off, and scarcely seem to yield; And loath unto the base their noble backs to show, They whirl their last club at them, as from the ground they go. _Ibid_. Even the fair ones have divided themselves into two parties, and one detachment wheels off with the overpowered body that they may enjoy the happiness of wandering homewards on the arm of the Bursche. This burlesque student song on the Handwerksburschen is very descriptive of these scenes: GOD GREET THEE, BROTHER STRAUBINGER. God greet thee, Brother Straubinger, I'am glad to meet thee though; Perhaps it is unknown to thee, That from Heidelberg I go. The master and the mistress, Of them I can't complain, But with these gents, the students, No mortal can contain. I lately bought me in the fair, A band, red, black, and golden, And hung my watch to it, that there From falling 't might be holden. Fierce as a horse a Bursch appears, And at me right he batters; He dashed the watch about my ears, The riband tore to tatters.[23] And as I in the Faulen-Beltz[24] Was with my sweetheart sitting, He nicknamed me a Knotenpeltz, For such fat Besom fitting[25] As in the dance I whirled about, They 'gan to stamp and rumble; The Senius stretched his leg so out,[26] That I must o'er it tumble. I'll off by Zurich unto Berne, And there I think to stay, so; And if my sweetheart false should turn, She may write to me, and say so. I must be stupid as an ass, 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.