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Project Gutenberg's Black Forest Village Stories, by Berthold Auerbach This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Black Forest Village Stories Author: Berthold Auerbach Translator: Charles Goepp Release Date: May 24, 2010 [EBook #32517] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLACK FOREST VILLAGE STORIES *** Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by Google Books Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA381&id=12YTAAAAYAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false 2. Diphthong oe is represented by [oe]. 3. Footnotes are at the end of the book. BLACK FOREST VILLAGE STORIES BY BERTHOLD AUERBACH TRANSLATED BY CHARLES GOEPP AUTHOR'S EDITION _Illustrated with Facsimiles of the original German Woodcuts._ NEW YORK LEYPOLDT & HOLT 1869 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by LEYPOLDT & HOLT, In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. BLACK FOREST VILLAGE STORIES. THE GAWK I see you now, my fine fellow, as large as life, with your yellow hair cropped very short, except in the neck, where a long tail remains as if you had cut yourself after the pattern of a plough-horse. You are staring straight at me with your broad visage, your great blue goggle eyes, and your mouth which is never shut. Do you remember the morning we met in the hollow where the new houses stand now, when you cut me a willow-twig to make a whistle of? We little thought then that I should come to pipe the world a song about you when we should be thousands of miles apart. I remember your costume perfectly, which
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