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God forbid! Must I spank you? Who tells you such wicked things?" "The other day he beat Aaron and took six groschen from him." "If he took money from Aaron, no doubt the accursed Jew had first cheated him out of it. Huelsmeyer is a respectable householder, and the Jews are all rascals!" "But, mother, Brandes also says that he steals wood and deer." "Child, Brandes is a forester."
"He is a peculiar child," said Margaret, as though to herself; "it's not a good thing." Simon laughed aloud. "Your boy is timid because the others have given him a few good thrashings. Don't worry, the lad will repay them! Huelsmeyer came to see me lately; said the boy was like a deer." What mother's heart does not rejoice when she hears her child praised?
Frederick answered, just as softly: "That is Uncle Simon's swineherd; he has a message for Huelsmeyer. Uncle gave me a pair of shoes and a huckaback vest which the boy carried for me; in return I promised him my violin; you see, he's a poor child. His name is John." "Well?" said Margaret. "What do you want, mother?" "What's his other name?"
"It is almost ten o'clock," he said. "Now the Bride's Minuet! I will strike up." "A beautiful watch!" said the swineherd, and leaned forward in reverential curiosity. "What did it cost?" cried Will Huelsmeyer, Frederick's rival. "Will you pay for it?" asked Frederick. "Have you paid for it?" retorted Will. Frederick threw him a haughty glance and seized the bow in silent majesty.
The preëminence came to be acknowledged more and more as people became conscious of the fact that they neither knew him nor could guess of what he might be capable. Only one young fellow in the village, Will Huelsmeyer, who realized his own strength and good circumstances, dared to defy him.
"Well, well," Huelsmeyer went on, "such things have happened. As you know well enough, Franz Ebel had a beautiful watch too, till Aaron the Jew took it away from him." Frederick did not answer, but nodded proudly to the first violin and they began to play with all their might and main.
"Very tired," replied John; "and" he pointed to his forehead "my thoughts are at times so curious I cannot exactly tell how things are." "I understand," said the baron; "that is an old story. Now, go. Huelsmeyer will probably put you up for another night; come again tomorrow."
That is the broad oak." Frederick started, and with his cold hands clung to his uncle. "See," Simon continued, "here Uncle Franz and Huelsmeyer found your father, when without confession and extreme unction he had gone to the Devil in his drunkenness." "Uncle, uncle!" gasped Frederick. "What's coming over you? I should hope you are not afraid? Devil of a boy, you're pinching my arm!
That silenced him; and now he gradually gleaned from the remarks of the bystanders that his father had been found dead in the woods by his Uncle Franz Semmler and by Huelsmeyer, and was now lying in the kitchen. As soon as Margaret regained consciousness she tried to get rid of the strangers.
But we carried them together, after all, and now I am alone!" Then louder, "Fritzy, come here!" Frederick approached her timidly; his mother had become quite uncanny to him with her black ribbons and her haggard, troubled face. "Fritzy," she said, "will you now really be good and make me happy, or will you be naughty and lie, or drink and steal?" "Mother, Huelsmeyer steals." "Huelsmeyer?
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