midday
But again I am interrupted and turned aside . Comes now the young Herr , and he has his supper , for ever since he came to the Prinz Karl he takes his dinner in the midst of the day as a man should . `` Ouch , '' he says , `` it makes one too gross to eat in the evening . '' So the Herr takes his dinner at midday like a good German ; and when there is supper he will always have old Jacob to tell him tales , in which he says that there is no beginning , no era , nor Hegira , no Anno Domini , but only the war of Seventy . But he is a hard-hearted young Kerl , and will of necessity have his jesting . Only yesterday he said -- `` Jacob , Jacob , this duck he must have been in the war of Siebenzig ; for , begomme , he is tough enough . Ah , yes , Jacob , he is certainly a veteran .