The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-06

peasant RI our Herr Hans Trauten-
dort1er." the chief editor stipulated. will
spend the coming year, 1897, from beg ginning
TO end, out In the country with those ideal
people, as a common peasant farmland,
I will pledge myself 10 pay him on Jan. i,
1895. the sum Of 10000 crowns in cash. y
Herr Trautendorfler went away and earned
his 10000 crowns Furthermore he mar
ried a peasant girl Of great beauty and
considerable simplicity, and his hfty-two
letters, making this story, we're published
in a book and won for him on emolument
which caused him 10 cry Herr Gott i'm
Himmel." when he heard OF il.
Long names have seldom been so dear
10 us that we have not found ourselves
wiling 20 dispense with them, and we were
glad that they called Herr Trautendorfer
Hans Oh Adams mountain farm, where he'
found employment. The rev hand must
have seemed rather queer 10 Adams house
hold, but they trusted him, Our God is
far abo We NJ and the policeman far away,
observed old Adam, and this trust, accord
inglv, seems TO have been necessary a.
we'll a. beautiful The farmhouse was
calculated to please those who hate new
farmhouses On the main beam in the
living room was carved the date 1850. There
il nothing contemplate about that" says
Herr Trautendorffer, and We should think
as much The doors and windows were
low; one had 70 stoop TO enter and to kneel
in order to look out. The hencoop was
inside in a niche in the wall next 70 the fire
place. There were two ailing ones in the
family Old Adam had either heart disease
or asthma, for which he breathed with
much advantage the smoke Of witches
weed burned on a shovel ard the handsome
son, Rocherl. had recently been shot and
bore in his wrist a bullet which they were
irving to draw out with pouit ices Of cobbler's
wax. But interested as the man from the
CITY was In these troubles and these medica-
ments he was still more Interested in
BARREL
Barbel had been busy with her Hddr-
kdmpen-that is 10 say. she had been hat CHI
ellinQ flax oft in the shed Instead Of
bending her head, as the others did, sh"
len, her knees in a little courtesy az she
came in at the low door How is it pos
siblo." injuries our historian. for people
TO grow up slender and straight when they
must double themselves together 70 many
lines "a day?r On her arm she carried
skeins Of fax. which she hung carefully
over the back of chair. She looked like
the Madonna IN DR., sden, Nothing hut
the child was lacking" wrote Herr 1raWen-
dorffer. TO make il perfect likeness
In the city such a beautiful creature would
b.. impossible Yes. say impossible
The greedy eyes Of the men would soon
wither this lovely spirit. There is some-
thing like the bloom Of the grape about
her II i'll, and those eyes would destroy this
bloom, would spoil these rosebud lips,
they would long since have transformed
this pure, honest soul into that Of a coquette.
They routed Hans out at in the morning
70 thre-h oats He and Barbcl and the
housefather and the housemother all en-
gagged in the threshing, They did their
work in the barn by the light Of a candle
fas, tened 10 the wall by II nail. Their hands
covered against the cold with lambs wool
mittens. they beat the straw ar rythmically
AZ a klopstockade III trochaiCs. Three 81
lent, strenuous hours Of this before Rocherl
whistled them TO breakfast. Since he can
not ,hresh he makes our coffee. All, me,
[ could drink the very word, For thine in
s,r,Iction: Roasted cornmsal boiled in water
with n little butter and caraway. II IL
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