He explains to you that by itself that is of no service whatever; you have only taken the first step towards travelling; you must go back to the booking-office and get in addition what is called a "schnellzug ticket." With this you return, thinking your troubles over.
You are allowed to get in, so far so good.

But you must not sit down anywhere, and you must not stand still, and you must not wander about.
You must take another ticket, this time what is called a "platz ticket," which entitles you to a place for a certain distance.
What a man could do who persisted in taking nothing but the one ticket, I have often wondered.

Would he be entitled to run behind the train on the six-foot way?
Or could he stick a label on himself and get into the goods van?
Again, what could be done with the man who, having taken his schnellzug ticket, obstinately refused, or had not the money to take a platz ticket: would they let him lie in the umbrella rack, or allow him to hang himself out of the window?
To return to George, he had just sufficient money to take a third-class slow train ticket to Baden, and that was all.

To avoid the inquisitiveness of the guard, he waited till the train was moving, and then jumped in.
That was his first sin: (a) Entering a train in motion; (b) After being warned not to do so by an official.
Second sin: (a) Travelling in train of superior class to that for which ticket was held.
(b) Refusing to pay difference when demanded by an official.

(George says he did not "refuse"; he simply told the man he had not got it.) Third sin: (a) Travelling in carriage of superior class to that for which ticket was held.
(b) Refusing to pay difference when demanded by an official.