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The rest of that day Amrei did not offer her pitcher to any one else; she was afraid of having something given to her again. When she got home in the evening, Black Marianne told her that Farmer Rodel had sent for her, and that she was to go over to him directly. Amrei hastened to his house, and as she entered, Farmer Rodel called out to her: "What have you been saying to Farmer Landfried?"
The wife came out of another room, and Amrei's hands trembled; she would gladly have fallen upon her neck but she could not she dared not. Then the Farmer, bursting into laughter, said: "Just think, dame! Here's a girl from Haldenbrunn, and she has something to say to Farmer Landfried and his wife, but she won't tell me what it is. Now do you tell her what my name is."
He took Amrei by the hand, and asked, in a satirical imitation of a clergyman's voice: "Now I demand of you, honorable Cordula Catherine, called Dame Landfried, will you take this " and he whispered to the girl aside: "What is your Christian name?" "Amrei."
Her first idea, naturally, was to make application to Dame Landfried at Zumarshofen; but she knew what a bad appearance a begging letter would make in the eyes of the rich farmer's wife, who perhaps would not have any ready money anyway.
Amrei told Black Marianne that a wonder had happened to her; Farmer Landfried, whose wife she so often thought about, had spoken to her and had taken her part in a talk with Farmer Rodel, and had given her something. She then displayed the piece of money, and Marianne called out, laughing: "Yes, I might have guessed myself that it was Farmer Landfried.
You might take cold in such weather as this! Tell Marianne that Dame Landfried of Hochdorf told you to say, it is not right of her to let you run about like this! But no you needn't say anything I will speak to her myself. But, Amrei, you are a big girl now, and must be sensible and look out for yourself.
Now, the other women considered it impolite, even sinful, for, at the first draught, the so-called "John's-draught," it is looked upon as sinful to hold back not to respond; and the men also let themselves be persuaded, so that for a time nothing was heard but the clinking and putting down of glasses. "Father is right," old Dame Landfried at last said to her daughter.
"Damie says he'll go with me to America," said the uncle, as she came forward. Amrei, breaking up the straws in her hands, replied: "I've nothing to say against it. I don't know yet what I shall do, but he can go if he likes." "No," cried Damie, "I shan't do that. You did not go with Dame Landfried when she wanted to take you away, and so I shall not go off alone without you."
In Allgau they talked for years of the wonderful way in which young Farmer Landfried had brought home his wife, and told how finely he and his wife had danced together at their wedding, and especially did they praise a waltz called "Silverstep," the music for which they got from the lowlands.
Don't let him notice that you know anything about it either." Crappy Zachy went away, and Farmer Rodel called his sister and his wife into the little back room. After exacting a promise of secrecy, he imparted to them that a suitor for Rose was coming the next day, a prince of a man, who had a first-rate farm in fact, it was none other than John, the son of Farmer Landfried of Zumarshofen.
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