The Student Life of Germany Part 44

The order must, at the same time, be given, and where it is possible, to a Fox, to wipe the beerschisser from the beer-tablet.

If the umpire proclaims the out-to-be-fought as beer-honourable too early, or too late, he himself goes into beer-banishment.

122. Both parties must drink at once, on the word of command. If the beerschisser does this not, he is be-thundered to a viertel; if the other, who, according to the declaration of the fighter-out, has to drink with the beerschisser, drinks not at the same time, he goes into beer-banishment.

123. If the beerschisser does not drink, after the command is given, his choppin in the five minutes, he continues a beerschisser, and the choppin not drunken by him is written on the beer-tablet in addition.

124. In all these cases the commanding umpire has the right to p.r.o.nounce the penalty on the defaulters, without further proceeding, and cause them to be written on the beer-tablet, nor can he for this be called to account.

125. If one has been be-thundered on account of an unperformed quant.i.ty of fore or after drinking, he must drink the quant.i.ty still due, from five minutes to five minutes, after he has again been declared beer-honourable.

126. This must be done before those whom he has to drink after; or, should they be absent, before two beer-honourable witnesses.

127. The beerschisser has all the choppins that have been drunken with him during the fighting-out by the out-fighters immediately to pay for.

128. If the beerschisser has requested any one to call on him to be fought-out, he cannot again revoke the call; if he does this, he is mulct in a viertel.

129. The beerschisser has the right, during the pawking, or fighting-out, to have the beer necessary for the out-pawking upon the table at which the beer-honourables kneip.

130. Only one beerschisser can be pawked-out at one time.

131. He goes into beer-banishment--

(1) Who gives a false cerevis.

(2) Who offends against -- 34.

(3) Who permits a beer-touche, or provocation, to stand against him beyond the regular time, and neither challenges, fixes the time, nor fights out, without having any sufficient ground of excuse to give. The sufficient grounds are--

(_a_) Older scandals, but not fore or after drinking quant.i.ties.

(_b_) If he has received no beer, spite of its having been immediately ordered, after challenge or fixing of the time has taken place.

(4) Who has declared a beerschisser, either by word or deed, to be beer-honourable. This happens through--

(_a_) He who contracts a scandal or fights one out with a beerschisser, and kneips with him in beer; that is,

(a) He who fore or after drinks with a beerschisser. (-- 114).

(_b_) He who has his beer standing on the same table with that of a beerschisser.

(_c_) He who plays with a beerschisser at a beer-play.

(_d_) He who with the beerschisser pours out of the same vessel, or drinks with him out of the same gla.s.s.

(b) He who "catches out"[52] a beerschisser in the kneip, where the same stands inscribed as beerschisser on the beer-tablet.

(c) He who calls a Beer-convention upon a case against a beerschisser, which does not render him liable to a penalty of a viertel. (-- 115).

(d) He who submits to the same a beer-case for decision, or calls him as witness.

(e) He who too early proclaims the fought-out, beer-honourable.

(-- 121).

(5) He who too late declares the fought-out, beer-honourable.

(-- 121).

(6) He who calls a beer-honourable, or a beer-banned-appellant, a beerschisser.

(7) He who does not set out the appointed quant.i.ty within eight days.

(8) He who in pawking-out a beerschisser commands on a bad choppin.

(9) He who ought to drink with a beerschisser in his out-fighting, and does not drink at the right time, or drink at all.

(10) He who makes a quant.i.ty common; that is, fore or after drinks a quant.i.ty with a third person also, which he ought to drink with one only.

(11) The umpire whose decision before a Beer-convention is declared to be unjust (-- 62).

(12) The second who has to make the weapons equal, but who, according to the decision of a called-up umpire, has unjustly declared them to be equal.

(_f_) He who declares the decision of an umpire to be unjust without being able to show that it is so.

(13) Intruding witness. (-- 62).

(14) He who does not call a Beer-convention on account of a fact which is directed against himself, and which is punishable with beer-banishment.

(15) He who does not within five minutes drink the quant.i.ty dictated to him by the President of the Beer-convention. (-- 146).

(B.) OF SETTING FORTH BEER.

-- 132. Every viertel to be set out (that is, four measures, four jugs, or five bottles) is written down on the beer-tablet, and must within eight days, be set before a Beer-convention. He who exceeds this term, goes into beer-banishment. The Beer-convention which has be-thundered him, has at the same time to give the order that he and this quant.i.ty be wiped off the beer-tablet, and that he be written down anew under this date.

133. The Beer-convention, and he who sets it out, have equally partic.i.p.ation in this beer, and should the setter-out be a Fox, he too, who called the Beer-convention for him; but the Beer-convention can, if it please, make this quant.i.ty over to the General company.

134. A viertel must set-out--

(1) The Fox who _touches_, or provokes a beer-bursch to a challenge in beer, or in a beer-challenge doubles on him. (-- 23.)

(2) The Fox who has called a Beer-convention, or sits in one.

(-- 64.)

(3) The Fox who becomes an Umpire. (-- 64.)

(4) The Fox who touches the beer-cudgel of the President in a Beer-commers.

(5) Every one who, being called on to second, refuses without sufficient ground. (-- 36.)

(6) He who offends against -- 37.