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KARL METZEROTT ATTENDS A KAFFEE KLATSCH. Karl Metzerott, shoemaker, counted himself reasonably well-to-do in the world. It was a favorite saying of his (though he was not greatly given to sayings at …
THE PASTOR’S BLUE APRON. Pastor Schaefer was in serious trouble. It was the 22d of December, and his Christmas sermon was still unprepared: worse still, it stood every possible chance of remaining so…
A PESSIMIST. That same afternoon the Reverend Otto paid a pastoral visit to Dorothea Weglein, the lamb who was about to give herself over to the jaws of an infidel and socialistic wolf. His own fate …
DREAMS AND DREAMERS. Dora Weglein belonged to that large class of women in whom the heart is far stronger than the head. Such women feel strongly, but reason weakly; if the feeling be pure and right,…
“WHEN SORROWS COME.” Do you know, dear reader, how slowly and heavily fall the first drops of a thunder shower? After a little, when the storm is fully upon us, when the wind crashes in the branches …
IN BATTALIONS. Anna Rolf arose from her bed with her beauty wasted, her youth gone. Instead of the brilliant, joyous girl, there remained the sharp-featured, sharp-tongued woman, whose sound health, …
“’VIDING.” “Papa!” said Louis, one autumn evening. The child, just five years old, was perched, as usual, upon his father’s knee, his golden head nestled against his father’s breast. They were an odd…
MULTIPLICATION. “There’s just this about it,” said Sally Price, “Mr. Metzerott ain’t goin’ to be no loser by us , and that settles it.” “He’ll get paid for his kindness in heaven, anyhow,” returned S…
FORS FORTUNA. The very next day, Louis, by what his father and Dr. Richards would have agreed to call “blind chance,” found a silver quarter lying in the gutter before his own door. Yet it was certai…
HOMINIBUS BONÆ VOLUNTATIS. All the world was getting ready for Christmas; there was no doubt about that. As for South Micklegard, as the German quarter was usually called, it was absolutely upon its …
