_Mucker_, _Stubensitzer_, _Kopfhänger_, _Kessel_, _Wurzel_,--_Saint_, _Stay-at-Home_, _Head-hanger_, _Kettle_, _Root_.--These words are nearly synonymous, and indicate a man who scarcely dares to breathe, or to step over the door-sill; who from anxiety, or sanctimoniousness, goes with his head hanging down, or sits as continually over his books as a turkey-hen upon her eggs, or a kettle over the fire. _Pflaster-treter_, _Pavement-treader_; _Quark_, _Curds_.--These are names of the men who are natives of the city or its vicinity. Pavement-treaders are those who were born on the ground and site of the university, and therefore, from youth up, have trodden the very same street-pavements. The pavement-treaders are also generally styled _Patent-schissers_, since they must conduct themselves in all propriety, being under the eyes of their parents; must go about in gloves, and frocks, or untorn coats, and not smoke in the streets. _Curds_ are so called because they come only a few miles from the city, and to whom, therefore, their mothers, as their darlings, can send, if they please, a dish of curds to their suppers. _Kümmeltürk_.--Is a compound of _kümmel_ and _türk_, and denotes the class of Braggadocios and Boasters, who, at the first onset, rush upon the enemy with furious outcry and riot, but at the smallest show of real danger leap back like Kummel, cumin-seed, which a person attempts to mix with melted lard. This name also has the same meaning as _Quark_, or Curds. _Couche_, _Re-couche_, _Contre-couche_.--These are French terms, with which silence is commanded; but as they are terms commonly used to hounds, they stand properly amongst the verbal injuries. _Dummer Junge_, _Stupid Youth_.--Is the highest and most cutting insult, since it implies a denial of sound manly understanding and strength of capacity of him to whom it is applied. _Schuppen oder Rennen_.--To scale, as you'd scale a fish, or to run--meaning that poking with the elbows, when two meet and neither will give way. This is a real injury. Dissertatio de Quomodone seu von den Burschen Comment edita ab renommista rerum Bursicosarum experientissimo eodemque intrepido horibilique Martiali Schluck. * * *