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Updated: June 26, 2025
Miss Hanenwinkel had been in England, and had taken a great fancy to this form of expression much in vogue there, and she constantly used it as a form of farewell, whether it was apropos or not. Thus she would say to the persistent scissors-grinder, who came to the door, "Have you come back so soon? Do go where you are wanted if there is any such place. Good-bye.
Mr. and Mrs. Birkenfeld had gone to church, and with them Paula and Miss Hanenwinkel. In the sitting-room, Jule and Hunne were harmoniously discussing over a big dish of hazel-nuts, in how many different ways they could make the nutcracker crack a nut.
"That it will be at any rate," remarked Miss Hanenwinkel, who was passing through the room at that moment. "If you prefer to go with Miss Hanenwinkel," said Jule quickly, so that the governess might be sure to hear what he said; "you will be preserved in salt; quite the opposite you see to plums, which are done in sugar!
The voice was very firm, almost severe, but Hunne had Jule to back him, so he was full of courage, and he kept repeating; "Jule told me to." "Well, say it then quickly," said the governess, relenting a little. And Hunne repeated the riddle very slowly but correctly. Now Miss Hanenwinkel was a native of Bremen, and therefore very quick at repartee, and she never hesitated for an answer.
Miss Hanenwinkel suggested "Plum-jam," because Hunne often cried when he couldn't have plums, and everybody ate jam with a spoon, and if plum-jam was not on the supper-table to-night, it was sure to be, to-morrow. "Wrong! wrong!" cried Hunne again. "Well, I guess Tear-ful," said Rolf; but that was even worse than the others. "I think it may be Snow-drop," said the mother.
While their teacher was busy with the charade and little Hunne, the twins had drawn their chairs nearer and nearer, and laid their two heads together over some very important plans so very important and engrossing that Miss Hanenwinkel soon closed the book, with the remark that if the arithmetic were only some foolish nonsensical trick or other, there might be some chance of their being willing to work over it and understand it.
"If you break out into charades too, what will become of us? I have not a moment to waste. See, there is Mr. Julius just getting off his horse; ask him." Off ran Hunne. "Jule, nobody will guess my riddle, and even Miss Hanenwinkel is too busy, so she sent me to ask you." "Well, what is it, my little man? out with it," said Jule good-humoredly.
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