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From his rags he produced a rude diary blocked off on scraps of paper, a minute record of the river and the weather, covering many years. "Torrent, torrent, torrent." That word was repeated many tunes. Hause appeared often, signifying that the brook had risen. Every day he had noted its state. The river had become his god.
The missionary, with his assistants, was doing his best to reduce the chaos to order. Farther up the river Mr Ravenshaw encountered Herr Winklemann bearing a huge arm-chair on his shoulders. "Mine hause is toomed!" he said. "Doomed? I hope not. Where are you going with the chair?" "To zee hause of old Liz."
For instance, if one is casually referring to a house, HAUS, or a horse, PFERD, or a dog, HUND, he spells these words as I have indicated; but if he is referring to them in the Dative case, he sticks on a foolish and unnecessary E and spells them HAUSE, PFERDE, HUNDE. So, as an added E often signifies the plural, as the S does with us, the new student is likely to go on for a month making twins out of a Dative dog before he discovers his mistake; and on the other hand, many a new student who could ill afford loss, has bought and paid for two dogs and only got one of them, because he ignorantly bought that dog in the Dative singular when he really supposed he was talking plural which left the law on the seller's side, of course, by the strict rules of grammar, and therefore a suit for recovery could not lie.
This makes interesting reading for children, but Brentano did not lose sight of adults, including those who like to speculate as to the origin of the legend. Just as Frau Lureley closes the first Märchen, so does she begin the second: "Von dem Hause Staarenberg und den Ahnen des Müllers Radlauf." Here she creates, or motivates, the other characters.
They simply admit that I am Herr im Hause, and act on this conviction. There is no grumbling about my habitudes and whims. If I choose to dine on fire and brimstone, they will cook it for me to their best skill, thinking only that I am an unintelligible mortal, facheux to deal with, but not to be dealt with in any other way. My own four walls.
Another ancient writer relates that "the guest of a private house was enjoined to praise the decorations of the ceilings and the beauty of the curtains suspended from between the columns." This occurs, according to Mr. Perkins, the American translator of Dr. Falke's German book "Kunst im Hause," in the "Wasps of Aristophanes," written B.C. 422.
"You've got everything out, I fancy?" asked Lambert. "Everyt'ing," replied Winklemann, with a deep sigh; "not'ing is left but zee hause." "An' that won't be left long," observed Mr Ravenshaw, as a huge mass of ice went against its gable-end like a battering-ram. It seemed to be the leader of a fresh battalion of the destroyer.
"If I remember rightly, the top of the Hause drops about three hundred feet, and we'll probably spend half an hour in reaching the valley. There was one western divide that it took us several days to cross, dragging a tent, camp gear and provisions in relays.
The cotillon finished at half-past five, and the daylight poured in, making us all look ghastly, especially my sear and yellow leaf, whose children must have wondered why papa kam so spaet nach hause. Last week, in the beautiful palace built by Egypt for the Exposition, there was arranged a sort of entertainment for the Viceroy, to which we were invited with the Prince and Princess Metternich.
Its foot was wrapped in tangled brush that tore most of our clothes to rags, and the last pitch was two thousand feet of rock where the snow lay waist-deep in the hollows." "Two thousand feet! That dwarfs our little drop to the Hause. What were you doing so far up in the ranges?" "Looking for a copper mine." "And you found one?" "No; not that time.
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