CHAPTER IX.
Harris breaks the law--The helpful man: The dangers that beset him--George sets forth upon a career of crime--Those to whom Germany would come as a boon and a blessing--The English Sinner: His disappointments--The German Sinner: His exceptional advantages--What you may not do with your bed--An inexpensive vice--The German dog: His simple goodness--The misbehaviour of the beetle--A people that go the way they ought to go--The German small boy: His love of legality--How to go astray with a perambulator--The German student: His chastened wilfulness.
All three of us, by some means or another, managed, between Nuremberg and the Black Forest, to get into trouble.
Harris led off at Stuttgart by insulting an official.

Stuttgart is a charming town, clean and bright, a smaller Dresden.

It has the additional attraction of containing little that one need to go out of one's way to see: a medium-sized picture gallery, a small museum of antiquities, and half a palace, and you are through with the entire thing and can enjoy yourself.

Harris did not know it was an official he was insulting.

He took it for a fireman (it looked like a fireman), and he called it a "dummer Esel." In German you are not permitted to call an official a "silly ass," but undoubtedly this particular man was one.