Note 7 — VI YOUNG GERMANY (continued 4)

Are there not such things as learned Dogs, and horses too, who reckon? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Write not asses criticisms? Are not apes all good comedians? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Are not nightingales good singers? And is Freiligrath no poet? Who can sing of lions better Than their countryman, the camel?* (BOWRING)

*In German slang "camel" is equivalent to "blockhead."