He would hurry away, and at once report them to the police.

Then their foaming and their shrieking would be of short duration.
"Now then, now then, what's all this about ?" the voice of German authority would say severely to the waters.

"We can't have this sort of thing, you know.

Come down quietly, can't you?
Where do you think you are ?" And the local German council would provide those waters with zinc pipes and wooden troughs, and a corkscrew staircase, and show them how to come down sensibly, in the German manner.
It is a tidy land is Germany.
We reached Dresden on the Wednesday evening, and stayed there over the Sunday.
Taking one consideration with another, Dresden, perhaps, is the most attractive town in Germany; but it is a place to be lived in for a while rather than visited.

Its museums and galleries, its palaces and gardens, its beautiful and historically rich environment, provide pleasure for a winter, but bewilder for a week.