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With the high appreciation he had of "Tante" whom he termed, next to the mother, the most important factor of education in the family our "Oheim" was probably specially agreeable to him. He was thoroughly a self-made man.
Usually they were persuading him to tell stories, and when he condescended to do so, older ones flocked around him too, and they were never disappointed. What fire, what animation the old man had retained! We never called him anything but "Oheim." The word "Onkel" he detested as foreign, because it was derived from "avunculus" and "oncle."
With the high appreciation he had of "Tante" whom he termed, next to the mother, the most important factor of education in the family our "Oheim" was probably specially agreeable to him. He was thoroughly a self-made man.
Usually they were persuading him to tell stories, and when he condescended to do so, older ones flocked around him too, and they were never disappointed. What fire, what animation the old man had retained! We never called him anything but "Oheim." The word "Onkel" he detested as foreign, because it was derived from "avunculus" and "oncle."
Usually they were persuading him to tell stories, and when he condescended to do so, older ones flocked around him too, and they were never disappointed. What fire, what animation the old man had retained! We never called him anything but "Oheim." The word "Onkel" he detested as foreign, because it was derived from "avunculus" and "oncle."
With the high appreciation he had of "Tante" whom he termed, next to the mother, the most important factor of education in the family our "Oheim" was probably specially agreeable to him. He was thoroughly a self-made man.
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