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Detmold

Da sprach er voll aergernussen zu Herrn Centurio Titiussen, Kamerade zeuch dein Schwert hervor und von hinten mich durchbohr, weil doch alles Futsch ist

Notgeld der Stadt Detmold
Die Kämmereikasse löst diesen Gutschein ein:
Er wird ungütig einen Monat nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung.

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Then with his temper growing wusser,
Said to Centurion Titiusser,
"Pull your sword out -- never mind,
And bore me through with it behind,
Since the game is busted." *

History | Scherenschnitt

*Translation by Charles Leland (1872) from
Gaudeamus!: Humorous Poems
By Joseph Viktor von Scheffel
Folksong detailing the 9th Century BC Battle of the Teutoberg Forest in which the Roman general, Publius Quinctilius Varus, who suffered disastrous defeat by Germanic tribes, then took his own life.

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