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With busy haste he took the kettle, which the soldiers had dragged near, ran to the neighboring market and bought a groschen worth of lard to make the noodles savory, then hastened back to cut the bacon and mix it with the noodles. Some of the soldiers returned empty-handed no wood was to be found; the soldiers, who had searched before them, had taken it all.
"See here, your majesty, no one gets off from us with just a 'thank you, and you, least of all, sire; every one must pay his part." "Well," said the king, "how much is my share?" "It cost each of us three groschen; the king may pay what he pleases." "Will you credit me, dragoon?" said the king, who searched his pockets in vain for money.
After he had satisfied his hunger, he thanked the shepherd, and offered him one of the groschen which the fish had given him, but the old man refused it.
The next chest was filled with gold, silver, and bronze drinking-cups and goblets, lamps, vases, and urns, that had been gathered from the ships of many countries. Then there were chests which contained little barrels full of gold and silver coin of every realm, from the huge golden doubloon of Spain to the little silver groschen of Germany.
Herr von S. opened the box; five groschen lay in it, neatly wrapped in paper, and four silver vest-buttons. The Baron examined them with interest. "A remembrance from Mergel," he muttered, and stepped out, for he felt quite oppressed in the musty, close room. The search was continued until they had convinced themselves that John was no longer in the vicinity at least, not alive.
The dislike of direct taxation is an essential part of Bismarck's reform; he especially disapproved of the Prussian system, the barbarous system, as he called it, according to which every man had to pay a small portion, it might be even a few groschen, in direct taxes.
"She would give one ring now, and the other if the charm succeeded. The peasant had only given her a few groschen." Illa. "Yes; but she had only given him half the charm." Haec. "Was it anything to eat or drink?" Illa. "No; there was no eating or drinking: the charm did it all." Haec.
His name was Kraft, and he gladly received his son's companion as apprentice, George having spent his last groschen that very day, and thus the little prince was turned into a stone-mason's apprentice. In the castle of the Greylocks, meanwhile, there was sorrow and lamentation.
Being a shrewd little boy, and having had by great luck two silver groschen in his breeches-pocket, which he had earned the day before by chopping wood, he had bought some bread and sausage at the station of a woman there who knew him, and who thought he was going out to his uncle Joachim's châlet above Jenbach.
A weekly contribution of only one silver groschen each from one hundred thousand members of the union would produce over one hundred and sixty thousand thalers yearly.
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