[Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome]@TWC D-Link bookThree Men on the Bummel CHAPTER IX 22/35
For a really cheap evening, I would recommend walking on the wrong side of the pavement after being cautioned not to do so.
I calculate that by choosing your district and keeping to the quiet side streets you could walk for a whole evening on the wrong side of the pavement at a cost of little over three marks. In German towns you must not ramble about after dark "in droves." I am not quite sure how many constitute a "drove," and no official to whom I have spoken on this subject has felt himself competent to fix the exact number.
I once put it to a German friend who was starting for the theatre with his wife, his mother-in-law, five children of his own, his sister and her _fiance_, and two nieces, if he did not think he was running a risk under this by-law.
He did not take my suggestion as a joke.
He cast an eye over the group. "Oh, I don't think so," he said; "you see, we are all one family." "The paragraph says nothing about its being a family drove or not," I replied; "it simply says 'drove.' I do not mean it in any uncomplimentary sense, but, speaking etymologically, I am inclined personally to regard your collection as a 'drove.' Whether the police will take the same view or not remains to be seen.
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