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In some of these schools the curriculum included "Reading and sewing, threepence a week: a penny extra for manners." An old thirteenth century work, called the "Kleine Heldenbuch," contains a verse which may be thus translated: "Who taught me to embroider in a frame with silk? And to draw and design the wild and tame Beasts of the forest and field?

She was coquettishly dressed this evening, and looked so charming that people drew one another's attention to DIE REIZENDE KLEINE ENGLADNDERIN. But Maurice soon discovered that she was out of spirits, and disposed to be cross. For fear lest he was the offender, he asked if she had quite forgiven him, and if they were good friends again. "Oh, I had forgotten all about it!"

"Why it's the baby!" cried Fanny, and swung her out of the nurse's protesting arms. Such a German-looking baby. Such an adorably German-looking baby. "Du kleine, du!" Fanny kissed the roseleaf cheek. "Du suszes " She turned suddenly to Theodore. "Olga where's Olga?" "She did not come." Fanny tightened her hold of the little squirming bundle in her arms. "Didn't come?"

Meine kleine Soldatin, I call her. "Soldatin, eh?" mused Von Gerhard. "Our little soldier. She is well named. And her battles she fights alone. But quite alone." His eyes, as they looked down on me from his great height had that in them which sent the blood rushing and tingling to my finger-tips. I brought my hand to my head in stiff military salute. "Inspection satisfactory, sir?"

"That, I think, I must leave you to learn later. But I should like you to know at once that I'm not keeping you here without a motive." The stately figure moved on, leaving Chip to guess blindly at the possibilities in store. More days passed nearly a week. Chip spent much of his time in the Kleine Schanze, noticing that the distinguished stranger frequented it less.

For round them, in patches, among the stunted firs, the snow was still lying; even while the sun beat warmly overhead, and thin crops of rye, the only grain fit to be cultivated at such a height from the plain, seemed advancing to perfection. Kleine Oupa is rather a hamlet than a village.

"This Count Plettau has read a certain amount. One must give the devil his due!" But Major Schrader, who in his leisure hours occupied himself with modern literature, who had seen "Die Weber" and "Seine Kleine" in Berlin, and was even acquainted with "Rosenmontag," murmured softly to himself; "A farewell to the regiment!"

The gentleman took the air elsewhere. For contiguous to the terrace of the hotel is a little public park called the Kleine Schanze haunt of well-behaved Bernese children, of motherly Bernese housewives supplied with knitting and the gossip of the town, of Bernese patriarchs in search of gentle exercise and sunshine.

'Oh, really, I said, beginning to feel highly absurd, but keenly curious. 'And she inquired about the Dulcibella? 'Herrgott! she was difficult to satisfy! Stood over me while I searched the books. "A very little one," she kept saying, and "Are you sure all the names are here?" I saw her into her kleine Boot, and she rowed away in the rain. No, she left no message.

Pueckler generously admired the splendour that he had had so large a share in creating, and then went contentedly back to his kleine Branitz, his only regret being that he could not live to see it, like Muskau, in the fulness of its matured beauty.