Chapter XVI
The Commers.—The Commerses, general and special—their social Festive Meetings, held on various occasions—Description of the General Commers—certain Songs sung, as “Heidelberg live thou,” etc.—the Singing of “The Consecration Song, or Landsfather,” and singular ceremonies attending it—the Ceremony of the Smollis— Smollering constitutes a Brotherhood to last for life—Drinking Laws of the Commers—Herr Schluck’s Comments on a Commers—the Excesses of the Ancient Commerses abandoned