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And only see that little wooden cart and horse; won't that delight some of the children in the Dorf? And, Mutter, we must hang up that warm hood for Frau Schenk, poor woman; and now here are the warm cuffs for the men, and a lovely pair for Wilhelm. And, O Hans, we will not tell you what you are to have; nor you either, Mutter. No, no, you will never guess. I bought them myself."
Ere they left the Dorf, Johann Schmidt had returned from executing his message to Dringenstadt. He had seen the Pfarrer, and he had promised to come along presently and arrange about the funeral. "The Lord thy Shepherd is Dread not nor be dismayed To lead thee on through stormy paths, By ways His hand hath made."
Lionel hardly dared to ask him, as he did at last on their way through Dorf, what news he had of his wife. "What news of Estelle?" Winn asked indifferently. "None particularly. She doesn't like Peter's language. My people seem to have taken to him rather, and I hear he's picked up parts of the Governor's vocabulary. It'll be jolly hearing him talk; he couldn't when I left.
'Thorpe, equivalent to the German 'dorf' as Bishopsthorpe, Althorp, tells the same tale of a Norse occupation of the soil; and the terminations, somewhat rarer, of 'thwaite, 'haugh, 'garth, 'ness, do the same no less. You are yourselves learning, or hereafter you may be teaching others, the names and number of the English counties or shires.
'She knows as well as any one, muttered he, 'that though the baker's son from Prague, or the Amtmann's nephew from a Bavarian Dorf, may manage to "come through" with his pay, the young Englishman cannot. I can neither piece my own overalls, nor forswear stockings, nor can I persuade my stomach that it has had a full meal by tightening my girth-strap three or four holes.
But it had no such influence on the heart, the kindly heart, of the young wood-cutter as he walked on, bent only on reaching the small hamlet or "Dorf" where stood the hut of the man with whom he sought to hold counsel as to how a search could be instituted in the Forest for the father of little Frida.
In Kaiser-Wilhelm's Dorf, it was evident, content and comparative prosperity reigned supreme. Behind every house was a pigsty, behind nearly every one a cowshed.
No! father never prayed to that, nor would he let her do so, she said just to Jesus, dear Jesus in heaven; and though several of those who heard her words crossed themselves as she spoke, and prayed the Virgin to forgive, all were much taken with and deeply sorry for the orphan child; and when Wilhelm raised her in his arms to take her back to his hut and to the care of Elsie, more than one of the inhabitants of the Dorf brought some little gift from their small store to be taken with him to help in the maintenance of the little one so strangely brought among them.
"It is your English 'thorp, or Swedish 'torp, or German 'dorf, a village," replied the Pastor. "Vandstrup, for instance, is 'the village by the water, as the Danish word for water is Vand. It is, as you know, close to the river."
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