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Identifier: germanclassicsof18fran (find matches)
Title: The German classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; masterpieces of German literature
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930 Howard, William Guild, b. 1868 Singer, Isidore, 1859-1939
Subjects: German literature German literature English literature
Publisher: Albany, N. Y. : J. B. Lyon company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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w breastcovered with faded, ragged shawls. Part of the right wall is also lighted up, with stove, stove-bench, bedstead,and one or two gaudily colored sacred prints. On the stove rail rags arehanging to dry, and behind the stove is a collection of worthless lumber.On the bench stand some old pots and cooking utensils, and potatoparings are laid out on it, on paper, to dry. Hanks of yarn and reelshang from the rafters; baskets of bobbins stand beside the looms. In theback wall there is a low door without fastening. Beside it a bundle ofwillow wands is set up against the wall, and beyond them lie somedamaged quarter-bushel baskets. The room is full of sound — the rhythmic thud of the looms, shaking floorand walls, the click and rattle of the shuttles passing back and forward,and the steady whirr of the winding-wheels, like the hum of giganticbees. Mother Baumert (in a querulous, feeble voice, as the girlsstop weaving and bend over their webs). Got to makeknots again already, have you?
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Permission nerlin Photo Co., Xeu- York GERHART HAUPTMAXN Nicola Perscheid THE WEAVERS 33 Emma (the elder of the two girls, about tiventy-two, tying a broken thread). Its the plagueyest web, this!Bertha (fifteen). Yes, its real bad yarn theyve given us this time.Emma. What can have happened to father? Hes been away since nine.Mother Baumert. That he has! yes. Where in the wide world cn he be?Bertha. Dont you worry yourself, mother.Mother Baumert. I cant help it. Bertha lass. (Emma begins to tveave again.)Bertha. Stop a minute, Enuna!Emma. What is it!Bertha. I thought I heard some one.Emma. Itll be Ansorge comin home. Enter Fritz, a little, barefooted, ragged boy of four. Fritz (whimpering). Im hungry, mother. Emma. Wait, Fritzel, wait a bit! Granfather11 be herevery soon, an hes bringin bread along with him, ancoffee too. Fritz. But Im awful hungry, mother. Emma. Be a good boy now, Fritz. Listen to what Imtellin you. Hell be here this minute. Hes bringinnic^ bread an nice corn-coffee;

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