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That will suit you very well, for you look like an Allgau girl yourself sturdy, and brown, and round. You look like Dame Landfried's daughter at Zusmarshofen." "Why like her daughter? What made you think of her?" asked Barefoot, and she trembled all over.
And involuntarily she began to hum the old song: "There were two lovers in Allgau Who loved each other so dear." She had begun the day in expectation of joy, and now she wished that she were dead. She thought to herself: "How good it would be to fall asleep here behind this hedge and never to awake again. You are not to have any joy in this life, why should you run about so long?
When the cattle are brought in at the end of the summer, he has many stories to tell his sister's children, on winter nights, about life in America, about Coaly Matthew in Mossbrook Wood, and about shepherds' adventures in the mountains of Allgau. In particular, he knows a number of funny stories to tell about a cow which he calls his "herd-cow," and which wears a deep-sounding bell.
Her cheeks glowed as if every star in the heavens were a heat-radiating sun, and her very heart burned within her. And now, just as if she had begun it, as if she herself had struck up the tune, her companions ahead began to sing the song that had risen to her lips that morning: "There were two lovers in Allgau, Who loved each other so dear;
"I'll never give you a good word again if you don't go to the dance today. Come sit down, and I will get you ready." Barefoot felt herself flushing crimson as she sat there while her mistress dressed her and brushed her hair away from her face and turned it all back; and she almost sank from her chair, when the farmer's wife said: "I am going to arrange your hair as the Allgau girls wear it.
She was paying a final visit to her native place; for the day before the hired-man had already carried her household furniture out of the village in a four-horse wagon, and early the next morning she was to move with her husband and her three children to the farm they had just bought in distant Allgau.
Yonder in Allgau, in the large farm-house known, by the sign over the door, as the "Wild Clearing," sat Farmer Landfried and his wife, with their youngest son. The farmer was saying: "Listen, John; it's more than a year since you came back, and I don't know what's gotten into you.
She raised her still tearful eyes to heaven, and said: "Gracious God, Thou givest me the thought." Then, turning to the child, she went on: "Listen I will take you with me. My Lisbeth was just your age when she was taken from me. Tell me, will you go with me to Allgau and live with me?" "Yes," replied Amrei, decidedly. Then she felt herself nudged and seized from behind.
I would have given you a letter to Farmer Landfried's wife in Allgau; and there you would have been treated like a son of the family." "Oh, don't talk to me about her!" said Damie crossly. "She has owed me a pair of leather breeches she promised me for nearly thirteen years. Don't you remember? when we were little, and thought we had only to knock, and mother and father would open the door.
And Damie? he is one of the most noted shepherds in Allgau, and has, moreover, a lofty name, for he is known in the country as "Vulture Damie." Why? Because Damie has destroyed the nests of two dangerous vultures, and thus avenged himself on them for twice having stolen young lambs from him. If it were the custom to dub men knights nowadays, he would be called "Damian of Vulturescraig."
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