[Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome]@TWC D-Link bookThree Men on the Bummel CHAPTER IX 20/35
You must not break glass or china in the street, nor, in fact, in any public resort whatever; and if you do, you must pick up all the pieces.
What you are to do with the pieces when you have gathered them together I cannot say.
The only thing I know for certain is that you are not permitted to throw them anywhere, to leave them anywhere, or apparently to part with them in any way whatever. Presumably, you are expected to carry them about with you until you die, and then be buried with them; or, maybe, you are allowed to swallow them. In German streets you must not shoot with a crossbow.
The German law- maker does not content himself with the misdeeds of the average man--the crime one feels one wants to do, but must not: he worries himself imagining all the things a wandering maniac might do.
In Germany there is no law against a man standing on his head in the middle of the road; the idea has not occurred to them.
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