To put your foot on German grass would be as great a sacrilege as to dance a hornpipe on a Mohammedan's praying-mat.

The very dogs respect German grass; no German dog would dream of putting a paw on it.

If you see a dog scampering across the grass in Germany, you may know for certain that it is the dog of some unholy foreigner.

In England, when we want to keep dogs out of places, we put up wire netting, six feet high, supported by buttresses, and defended on the top by spikes.

In Germany, they put a notice-board in the middle of the place, "Hunden verboten," and a dog that has German blood in its veins looks at that notice-board and walks away.