One of these days a German statesman, visiting a circus and seeing acrobats, will reflect upon this omission.
Then he will straightway set to work and frame a clause forbidding people from standing on their heads in the middle of the road, and fixing a fine.

This is the charm of German law: misdemeanour in Germany has its fixed price.

You are not kept awake all night, as in England, wondering whether you will get off with a caution, be fined forty shillings, or, catching the magistrate in an unhappy moment for yourself, get seven days.

You know exactly what your fun is going to cost you.

You can spread out your money on the table, open your Police Guide, and plan out your holiday to a fifty pfennig piece.