Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 502
s business, help-ing Johann with the fagots, saying little, andthinking much — which was more than all therest of the villagers could have done together. At last, however, the bench beside the Bar-thel family porridge-pot grew overcrowded; andone day, when Hans came home from the forest,there was… … HELPING JOHANN WITH THE FAGOTS. What! No room? cried the father, count-ing upon his thick red fingers: One, two,three, four — four on the bench, and there isno room ? Elsa, Elsa ! he called to his wife,who was frying the sausages out in the kitchen^there are only four boys sitting down; yetthere is…
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