American citizen., 1879-03-29

might eat black bread and barley, wear
wooden soled shoes and homespun gar
ments, if necessary, but they must have
education. The mother and elder sis
ters knit, every spare moment, and the
Count, as Blanche calls him, would
skate to town in winter, and walk in
summer, to sell their work The money
he brought home was all put into an
iron box, with paddock, the key of
which always slumbered in the vest
pocket Of good sFader Gautze,' and
was called by him 'schule geN school
money.
"My friend went at lergth to the uni
versity in Gottingen. The knitting and
the selling still went on, and he had the
proceeds-about one fifth of what a col
lege boy here would regard necessary
to keep up even decent style. He had
both smoked and drank lager beer at
home, as was the common custom there;
but now that he was earning nothing,
and spending what he regarded as
great deal, ne woke up to the meanness
of putting and drinking any of the mon
ey for which his mother and sisters were
working many weary hour. He quit
both habits at once, like the noble fell
low he is, and put himself to earnest
hard work.
"When he got through the univer-
sity, he cast his eyes this way, sure he
could make a living and name in
America; and SO he will.
"But Rome wasn't built in day,
and neither is any mans fortune. Hans
Christian Gautze landed at Castle Gar
den, New York, with good stout shoes,
heavy suit of clothes, a great canvas
bag, and a staff to hang it on. He fol-
lowed his fellow passengers to the
Deutscher Haas near by, and after a
good nights rest and a hearty break
fast, he sought out German clergy
man, told him his srory, and that he
wanted position as teacher.
"The good mans sensible advice was,
Push off into the country, and take the
very first work you can get, till you
can do better. He took the advice, and
soon found shelter, and plenty of hard
work without wages, with an old farmer,
seven miles from our cOllege-a man
who could always make work for those
who would do it without pay.
"My friends work was picking
huckleberries look as if you
wanted to correct ne, and say, 'whor-
the other. Poor Hans bent his great
back over the low bushes hour after
hour, till it was ready to break; and
yet, at sundown, the smart little Yankee
urchins beside him had twice as many
berries to carry home as he.
After two or three days. efforts, the
small berries constantly slipping
through his great fingers, he said to the
farmer, in the poor English he had
picked up at home and on the sea.
"You gives me hard work, 1 works
hard; but berry is too leetle, and runs
way from mel
"'Oh, never mind that; you'll soon
larn to hold 'em,' replied Farmer Duff.
'Small berries make big dollars, Hans.
"The farmer soon learned that his
new hand would never make a skillful
berry picker; so he sent him out with
two bucketfuls of the fruit to the large
town, seven miles off, to peddle them
out.
'Before this time, Hans had found
that his Hebrew Bible and lexicon, his
books he owned, had been stolen from
his canvas bag in the New York board
ng-house, and he felt as if his only
friends and companions were gone from
him forever.
"The farmers wife pitied him, and
said, Never mind. When you go ped
ding J our berries, you can call at Prof
Barclays and borrow some books
They read all their books in Greek anG
Hebrew, and they're real good anc
kind
"Hans understood enough of this to
make him happy. So, after selling
nearly all his load on the way, hs
brought up, red and hot, at the bach
door of Prof. Barclays house, abou
noon.
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over the hot stove, with a baby in heI
arms, and little fellow pulling at hel
skirts, and fretting for his dinner.
"'You wants some hoggleberries p
he asked, with a beaming face.
"sIndeed I doi' cried the lady. sMy
kitchen-girl left me suddenly, because
the nurse was sick up stairs. have
two gentlemen coming to dinner, and
have no dessert
"When Hans had measured cut the
last of the berries, he said, You gets
de dinner, and takes de babies for see
flowers and birds, in my big arms.
lives init Mrs. Duff. She say you lei
me read Hebrew, Greek, and more
books, and lend me-
"The lady looked at him in amaze.
ment, and then addressed him in Ger.
man, to his great delight, although her
German may not have been much better
than his English.
"When he held out his arms, both
children went to him. He took them
out, and, after a long walk, came back
with both of them asleep, one on each
shoulder. This gave the lady time to
serve her guests in peace. While the
family were at dinner, Hans was left in
the kitchen to wait for the Professor
and the promised books. What was