[51] BREI AUS HIRSE, millet-pudding or pap.

[52] KAM ... DAHER, came along.

[53] ERBARMTE IHR DER KNABE; erbarmen, ordinarily used as a reflexive verb with a genitive in the sense of take pity on someone, is used here in the sense of cause pity to someone.

II.

[54] TRINKSPRUCH, toper's adage.

[55] SCHUPPEN, carriage-house.

[56] TRIEB IMMER SEHR FRÜH NACH HAUSE, scil. die Schafe. The parents are described somewhat after the fashion of Goethe's account of his parents, of whom he said:

����Vom Vater hab' ich die Statur,
����Des Lebens ernstes Führen,
����Vom Mütterchen die Frohnatur,
����Und Lust zum Fabulieren.

[57] STÖSSIGER BOCK; einer der stößt (mit den Hörnern).

[58] IRRSAL STIFTETE, made trouble.