good beer an' good citizens an' mod-rate polismen, an' they are
fond iv their fam'lies an' cheese. But wanst a German, always
Dutch. Ye cudden't make Americans iv thim if ye called thim all
Perkins an' brought thim up in Worcester. A German niver ra-aly
leaves Germany. He takes it with him wheriver he goes. Whin an
Irishman is four miles out at sea he is as much an American as
Presarved Fish. But a German is niver an American excipt whin he
goes back to Germany to see his rilitives. He keeps his own
language, he plays pinochle, he despises th' dhrink iv th' counthry,
his food is sthrange an' he on'y votes f'r Germans f'r office, or
if he can't get a German, f'r somewan who's again' th' Irish. I
bet ye, if ye was to suddenly ask Schwarzmeister where he is, he'd
say: 'At Hockheimer in Schwabia.' He don't ra-aly know he iver
come to this counthry. I've heerd him talkin' to himsilf. He
always counts in German.

"But I say about Prince Hinnery that f'r a German he's all right
an' I'm glad he come. I hear he wrote home to his brother that
is th' Imp'ror over there: 'Dear Willum: This is a wondherful
counthry, an' they've give me a perfectly killin' rayciption.
I've almost died laughin'. We was met forty miles out at sea be
a band on a raft playin' th' Watch on th' Rhine. We encountered
another band playin' th' same plazin' harmony ivry five miles till
we got up to New York. I wisht I had come over on a man-iv-war.
In th' Bay we was surrounded be a fleet iv tugs carryin' riprisintatives
iv th' press, singin' th' Watch on th' Rhine. I rayceived siveral
offers through a migaphone to write an article about what ye say
in ye'er sleep f'r th' pa-apers, but I declined thim, awaitin'
insthructions fr'm ye. At th' dock we was greeted be a band playin'
th' Watch on th' Rhine an' afther some delay, caused be th'