We said that we wanted to hear it and that we wanted to have a good laugh. They went down and got Herr Slossenn Boschen.
Herr Slossenn Boschen seemed very happy to sing his comic song, because he came up immediately.
"oh, it will amuse you. You will laugh," whispered the two young men. Then they walked across the room and stood behind Herr Slossenn Boschen's back.
Herr Slossenn Boschen accompanied himself on the piano. The prelude did not seem like a comic song exactly. The music was weird and sad. We whispered to each other that it was the German method, and prepared to enjoy it.
I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and I have felt better ever since.
