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Detmold

Als das Morden war zu Ende
Rieb Fürst Hermann sie die Hände und um sich noch mehr zu freu'n, lud er die Cherusker ein zu 'nem grossen Frühstück

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

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

When this forest fight was over
Hermann rubbed his hands in clover;
And to do the thing up right,
The Cheruscans did invite
To a first-rate breakfast.*

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.

**Two verses not illustrated in the series come after this and just before the last one:

And the tidings so provoked him,
That a peacock leg half choked him,
And he cried -- beyond control --
"Varus -- Varus -- d---n your soul!
Redde legiones!

His German slave, Hans Schmidt be-christened,
Who in the corner stood and listened,
Remarked, "Der teufel take me wenn
He efer kits dose droops acain,
For tead men ish not lifin."

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