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The Student-Life of Germany

by William Howitt

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Chapter XVII

The Special Commers.—Description of a train of Students going out to a Special Commers in the country—their arrival there— description of the Room and mode of holding the Commers—Ceremony, and Song of “The Prince of Fooling”—Frolics and Gambols of the Students the next day in the village—An old ballad describing these in 1650—the Commers over, they return often by water, with music and fireworks—close it with drinking Crambambuli—the Song of Crambambuli—The Lumpin Bell

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