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Title: Tales from the German. Volume II.
The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist

Author: Carl Franz van der Velde

Translator: Nathaniel Greene

Release Date: May 19, 2010 [EBook #32444]

Language: English

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Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provide by the Web Archive

Transcriber's Notes:

1. Page scan source:
http://www.archive.org/details/talesfromgerman01greegoog

2. This volume includes these stories: The Lichtensteins: A
Tale of the Times of the Thirty Years War; The Sorceress;
and The Anabaptist: A Tale of the First Half of the Sixteenth
Century.

TALES

FROM THE GERMAN

TRANSLATED

BY NATHANIEL GREENE.

VOLUME II.

BOSTON:
AMERICAN STATIONERS' COMPANY,
JOHN B. RUSSELL.

1837.

BOSTON:
Samuel N. Dickinson, Printer,
52, Washington Street.

THE LICHTENSTEINS.

A TALE OF THE TIMES OF THE THIRTY YEARS WAR.

BY C. F. VAN DER VELDE.

CHAPTER I.

On christmas-eve, in the year 1628, Katharine, the wife of the merchant
Fessel, of Schweidnitz, was standing in her large back parlor, with her
infant upon her arm, arranging with feminine taste, upon a long table
covered with a snow-white cloth, the Christmas gifts destined for her
husband, her children, and the other members of her family.

At a table in the corner, sat the book-keeper, Oswald Dorn, giving the
finishing touch to a miniature manger, which he had ingeniously
constructed for the children of his employer. He now placed a
beautifully painted angel, cut