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Title: Black Forest Village Stories

Author: Berthold Auerbach

Translator: Charles Goepp

Release Date: May 24, 2010 [EBook #32517]

Language: English

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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