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A Dresden paper, the Weidemann, which thinks that there are kangaroos
(Beutelratte) in South Africa, says the Hottentots (Hottentoten) put
them in cages (Kotter) provided with covers (Lattengitter) to protect
them from the rain. The cages are therefore called
Lattengitterwetterkotter, and the imprisoned kangaroos
Lattengitterwetterkotterbeutelratte.
One day an assassin (Attentätter)
was arrested for killing an Hottentot woman (Hottentotenmutter),
the mother of two goofy (Trottelig) and stuttering (Stotterte)
children. The woman then, in the German language, is entitled
Hottentotenstottertrottelmutter, and her assassin the
Hottentotenstottertrottelmutterattentäter.
Once captured, the murderer was confined
in a kangaroo's cage (Beutelrattenlattengitterwetterkotter) whence a
few days later he escaped, but fortunately he was recaptured by a
Hottentot, who presented himself at the mayor's office with beaming
face:
- "I have captured the Beutelratte" said he.
- "Which one?" said the
mayor; "we have several".
- "The Attentäterlattengitterwetterkotterbeutelratte".
- "Which Attentäter are you talking about?"
- "About the Hottentotenstottertrottelmutterattentäter".
- "Then why don't you say at once, the
Hottentotenstottertrottelmutterattentäterlattengitterwetterkotterbeutelratte!"
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