<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37159" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hans and Fritz</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hans and Fritz were two Deutschers who lived side by side,<br> Remote from the world, its deceit and its pride:<br> With their pretzels and beer the spare moments were spent,<br> And the fruits of their labor were peace and content.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hans purchased a horse of a neighbor one day,<br> And, lacking a part of the Geld, — as they say, —<br> Made a call upon Fritz to solicit a loan<br> To help him to pay for his beautiful roan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Fritz kindly consented the money to lend,<br> And gave the required amount to his friend;<br> Remarking,—his own simple language to quote,—<br> "Berhaps it vas bedder ve make us a note."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The note was drawn up in their primitive way, —<br> "I, Hans, gets from Fritz feefty tollars to-day;"<br> When the question arose, the note being made,<br> "Vich von holds dot baper until it vas baid?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "You geeps dot," says Fritz, "und den you vill know<br> You owes me dot money." Says Hans, "Dot ish so:<br> Dot makes me remempers I haf dot to bay,<br> Und I prings you der note und der money some day."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A month had expired, when Hans, as agreed,<br> Paid back the amount, and from debt he was freed.<br> Says Fritz, " Now dot settles us." Hans replies,<br> "Yaw: Now who dakes dot baper accordings by law ?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "I geeps dot now, aind't it?" says Fritz ; " den, you see,<br> I alvays remempers you baid dot to me."<br> Says Hans, "Dot ish so: it vas now shust so blain,<br> Dot I knows vot to do ven I porrows again."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Follen+Adams">Charles Follen Adams</a> from <i>Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37159" data-title="Hans and Fritz de Charles Follen Adams" data-description="Hans and Fritz were two Deutschers who lived side by side,/ Remote from the world, its deceit and its pride:/ With their pretzels and beer the spare moments were spent,/ And the fruits of their labor were peace and content./ Hans purchased a horse..."></div> </div> </div>

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