Lelaps yonder was with me, and scented a spring.

Then it was necessary to dig, but I had neither spade nor hatchet, so I took out the loose part of the skull, it was a hard piece of bone, and dug with it till the water gushed out of the sand, then I drank out of my brain-pan as if it were a goblet." "Man, man!" exclaimed Ulrich, striking his clenched fist on the table.
"Do you suppose a dog can't scent a spring ?" asked Eitelfritz, with comical wrath.

"Lelaps here was born in Africa, the native land of tigers, and his mother...." "I thought you got him in Tubingen ?" "I said just now that I tell lies.

I imposed upon you, when I made you think Lelaps came from Swabia; he was really born in the desert, where the tigers live.
"No offence, Herr Ulrich! We'll keep our jests for another evening.

As soon as I'm knocked down, I stop my nonsense.