Black Forest Village Stories

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Auerbach Berthold. Black Forest Village Stories

THE GAWK

THE PIPE OF WAR

MANOR-HOUSE FARMER'S VEFELA

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NIP-CHEEKED TONEY

GOOD GOVERNMENT

1

2

THE HOSTILE BROTHERS

IVO, THE GENTLEMAN

1. THE FIRST MASS

2. THE TEACHER

3. CHILD'S LOVE

4. BRINDLE AND THE GOSLINGS

5. LIFE IN THE FIELDS

6. THE GRAMMAR-SCHOOL

7. THE CONVENT

8. THE HOLIDAYS

9. THE FRIENDS

10. A MEETING

11. THE COLLEGE

12. THE COLLEGE CHAP

13. DISCORD

14. THE QUARREL

15. RELEASE

FLORIAN AND CRESCENCE

1. THE GIRLS AT THE WELL

2. FLYING OFF THE HANDLE

3. WEEKDAY LIFE ON SUNDAY

4. HOW FLORIAN AND CRESCENCE MET AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME

5. FLORIAN DROPS A BUTTON OR TWO

6. FLORIAN IN CLOVER

7. DOWN HILL

8. FLORIAN LOSES MONEY AND WINS CRESCENCE

9. WHAT BECOMES OF A SCAPEGRACE AND OF A LOVING GIRL

10. FLORIAN DISDAINS THE HELP WHICH IS OFFERED HIM

11. FLORIAN HELPS HIMSELF

12. NEW BOOTS, AND HOW THEY PINCHED

13. THE GAUNTLET

14. MISERY AND FUN

15. A CHILD LOST AND A FATHER FOUND

THE LAUTERBACHER

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It is a singular story, and yet intimately connected with the great events of modern history, or, what is almost the same thing, with the history of Napoleon. Those were memorable times. Every farmer could see the whole array of history manœuvre and pass in review beneath his dormer-window: kings and emperors behaved like play-actors, and, sometimes assumed a different dress and a different character in every scene. And all this gorgeous spectacle was at the farmer's service, costing him nothing but his house and home, and occasionally, perhaps, his life. My neighbor Hansgeorge was not quite so unlucky, – as the story will show.

It was in the year 1796. We who live in these piping times of peace have no idea of the state of things which then existed: mankind seemed to have lost their fixed habitations and to be driving each other here and there at random. The Black Forest saw the Austrians, with their white coats, in one month, and in the next the French, with their laughing faces; then the Russians came, with their long beards; and mixed and mingled with them all were the Bavarians, Wurtembergers, and Hessians, in every possible uniform. The Black Forest was the open gate of Germany for the French to enter; it is only ten years since that Rastatt was placed as a bolt before it.

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"Mum's the word," said Little Red Meyer, and took his leave.

Hansgeorge came in rather sheepishly, being ashamed to confess that he had been listening. But when they sat closely side by side, he said, "Kitty, don't let them put any nonsense into your head: it's no such thing. They once used to say that I was courting the maid at the Eagle, who is now in Rothweil: don't you believe a bit of it. I wasn't confirmed then: it was nothing but child's-play."

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