And then those two young got up, and asked us if we had ever heard Herr Slossenn Boschen (who had just arrived) sing his great German comic song.
We had never heard it.
The young men said that it was the funniest song that had ever been written, and that, if we liked, they would ask Herr Slossenn Boschen, whom they knew very well, to sing it. They said the song was so funny that, when Herr Slossenn Boschen had sung it once before the German Emperor, he (the German Emperor) had had to be carried off to bed.
They said that Herr Slossenn Boschen sang the song in a very serious manner as if it were a tragedy, but that was why it was so funny. The words were funny and his manner was so serious.
