As we swam smoothly along between the enchanting shores, we fell to swapping notes about manners and customs in Germany and elsewhere.
As I write, now, many months later, I perceive that each of us, by observing and noting and inquiring, diligently and day by day, had managed to lay in a most varied and opulent stock of misinformation.

But this is not surprising; it is very difficult to get accurate details in any country.

For example, I had the idea once, in Heidelberg, to find out all about those five student-corps.

I started with the White Cap corps.

I began to inquire of this and that and the other citizen, and here is what I found out: 1.