Every body knows how great was at one time the rage in the universities to have Stammbücher. Every student kept one; and all the inmates of the house, the numerous members of the landsmannschaft, the whole body of the teachers and other acquaintances who approached him, each and all found their place in it. A student even came once to Dr. Semmler in Halle, with the request that he would have the goodness to write in his Stammbuch. Semmler, who, spite of his well-known and highly praiseworthy economy of time, could not repress his curiosity to turn over the leaves of the Stammbuch, found, to his great amazement, almost on every page such sentences and sayings as were not the most calculated to give him a high idea of the morality of the friends of the gentleman Stammbuch-holder. Finding a clear page, he therefore wrote--Matt. viii. 31. "Lord, suffer me, that I go amongst this herd of swine." Pittschaft.--If Rapunzel could say such stupid things as thou dost, I should set her down for a very conceited person, and would not trouble her with my Stammbuch, more particularly that she might not get a wicked notion of the morality of my friends, and amongst them of her beloved. Hoffmann.--Away with all personalities. Let us have a roundelay. There goes a drinking-law our table all around, around-- There goes a drinking-law our table all around:-- Three times three are nine-a, Ye know well what I opine-a. There goes a drinking-law our table all around. What a jolly time the damsels have though-- They're not compelled to the war to go. [Here he drinks out his glass, as each one does in his turn, after having sung.] THE KRÄHWINKLER LANDSTURM. But march you slow there before, but still march slow there before, Or the Krähwinkler Landsturm can follow no more. What a jolly time the maidens have though,-- They're not compelled to the war to go. Pittschaft--Dame hostess, cook you Millet-bree, When the Landsturm comes it will hungry be. Chorus--[As above, and repeated after the singing of each strophe.] Freisleben--Our captain is from Rudolstadt, He eats a deal, but hungers for all that. Von Kronen--Sir Captain! my follower goes so in trot, That scarcely a scrap of heel I have got. Enderlin-- At Leipsic, in the People's-Fight, We had nearly taken a prisoner quite. Eckhard-- The artillery would have fought right well, But of powder it can not bear the smell. Hoffmann (for Mr. Traveller)--The cavalry stout doth charge amain, And is always in when the dumpling's slain. Hoffmann.--Still farther goes our Lumpitus yet once more around! At Hamburgh burst a dreadful bomb, Potz Wetter! how ran we there all and some!