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"I should think that fifty would be enough, and even that is a pretty bit of money." "No, not a red farthing less than a round hundred, and in saying that I am making you a present of a hundred. But I am willing to do that much for you and your sister in fact, I am always glad to do a kindness to a fellow-townsman. Why, in Endringen or in Siebenhofen they would gladly give me double the money.
Dominic, in Endringen, they say, has three daughters as straight as organ-pipes; choose one of them we should like to have a daughter from that house." "Yes," the mother observed, "Ameile is sure to have nice daughters." "And it would be well," continued the father, "if you went to Siebenhofen and took a look at Amrei, the Butter Count's daughter.
She has a farm of her own that one could easily sell; the farmers of Siebenhofen have got their eyes on it, for they want to have more land. But it's a question of cold cash, and none of them can raise it. But I'll say nothing more, for you have eyes of your own.
Amrei of Siebenhofen, who was nicknamed the "Butter Countess," and who was known far and wide as proud and stubborn, was very friendly with Barefoot. Once, indeed, the mistress said to the latter: "It's a pity that you are not a boy; I believe that Amrei would marry you on the spot, and not send you home, as she does all of her suitors."
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