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Heimatlos: Two Stories For Children And For Those Who Love Children (1912)
Heimatlos Two Stories For Children And For Those Who Love Children - 1912 Author:Johanna Spyri HEIMATLOS TWO STORIES FOR CHILDREN, AND FOR THOSE WHO L0VE CHILDREN - PREFACE - In the translation of Heimatlos an effort has been made to hold as far as possible to the original, in order to give the reader of English the closest possible touch with the story as it stands in the - German. This method retains the . authors delightful simplicity,... more » and it leaves revealed, even in her roundabout way of telling things, her charming adapta l bility as a writer for children. The adult reader will pardon the repetitions, where the same thought is expressed in different ways, when it is remembered that the author is making doubly sure of reaching the understanding of the young mind. The literal rendering has been sacrificed only in a few instances, and then because of decal idioms and national standards. It is the hope of the translator that these two stories, so widely read by the children of Germany, will help our own little ones, in these days of general prosperity, to appreciate the everyday comforts bf home, to which they grow so accustomed as often to take them for granted, with little evidence of gratitude. E. S. H. iii CONTENTS LAKE SILS AND LAKE GARDA CHAPTER PAGE I . THE QUIET HOME . . . . . . . . . I I1 . IN SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . . . 5 111 . THE S CHOOL IASTER V I S O LIN . . . . . 10 IV . THE DISTANT LAKE WITHOUT A NAME . I7 V . THE LAKE HAS A NAME . . . . . . 22 V1 . RICOS MOTHER . . . . . . . . . . 25 V11 . A PRECIOUS LEC ACY AN11 A PRECIOUS PRAYER . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 VIII . AT LAKE SILS . . . . . . . . . . 33 IX . A PUZZLINGO CCURKENCE . . . . . . 39 X . A LITTLE. LIGHT . . . . . . . . . 43 XI . A LONG J OURNEY . . . . . . . . . 45 XI1 . THE J OURNEY CO NTINUED . . . . . . . 54 XI11 . LAKE GARDA . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 XIV . NEW FRIENDS . . . . . . . . . . . 67 XV . AN EMPHATICA PPEAL . . . . . . . 82 XVI . THEA DVICE . . . . . . . . . . . 86 XVII . OVER THE MOUNTAINS . . . . . . . 94 XVIII . TWOH APPYT RAVELE . KS . . . . . . 1 03 XIX . CLOUDS AT LAKE GARDA . . . . . . . I I I XX . AT HOME . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 XXI . SUNSHINE AT LAKE GAKDA . . 127 v vi CONTENTS WISELI FINDS HER PLACE CHAP I T . E R C OASTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I1 . THE H OME O N THE HILL . . . . . . . I11 . ANOTHER H OME . . . . . . . . . . IV . THE G OTTI HOME . . . . . . . . . V . How LIFE CONTINUES AND SUXI I C E OM I E S . V1 . A NEW FEATURE . . . . . . . . . . V11 . BRIGHTERD AYS F OR THE PATIENT A ND FOR SOME O NE ELSE . . . . . . . . . V111 . THE U NEXPECTE H D A PPENS . . . . . . PAGE 33 138 155 163 1 74 1 9 2 PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY . . . . . . . 2 3 I HEIMATLOS LAKE SILS AND LAKE GARDA CHAPTER I THE QUIET HOME In the Upper Engadine Valley, on the road leading up to the Maloja Pass, lies a lonely town called Sils. Taking a diagonal path from the street back to the mountains, one comes to a smaller village known as Sils-Maria. Here, a little aside from the highway, in a field, two dwellings stood opposite each other. Both had old-fashioned doors and tiny windows set deep in the wall. One house had a garden, where herbs and vegetables and a few straggling flowers were growing. The other, which was much smaller, had only an old stable with a couple of chickens wandering in and out of it. At the same hour every morning there came out of this forlorn little house a man who was so tall that he had to stoop in order to pass through the doorway. His hair and eyes were very dark, and the lower part of his face was hidden by a heavy black beard...« less