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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 is not very
surprising, as there is nothing to keep in mind but a shirt, red
suspenders, and a pair of linen pantaloons dyed black to guard against
all contingencies. On Sunday you were more stylish: then you wore a fur
cap with a gold tassel,