WHAT I SAW IN GERMANY
(By a girl of ten) A child’s letter on a holiday in Germany. These are things she put down. She is Marion McLean, aged ten. Almost every house has stuffed birds and animals. Policemen carry pistols and cudgels. Sausages are wrapped in silver paper with blue and pink bows. Deaf people wear a yellow armlet with two black spots, the blind have three spots. There are many gingerbread fairs with performing monkeys and so on. Often you may see gipsies on the road with a man leading a donkey which carries pots and pans, bed and food, and tramping behind them is a gipsy woman with a baby on a donkey. Most German children wear earrings and have long plaited hair. The children are taught to curtsey to their elders. Wedding rings are worn on the right hand.
Sometimes it is amusing to hear the English; one German who wanted to say Sall on a ship, said Drive on a ch lp. —From the C.N.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20639, 30 January 1937, Page 13
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