Black Forest Village Stories - Berthold Auerbach

[Footnote 4]: About half a cent.

[Footnote 5]: And thereby escape being taken as a recruit.

[Footnote 7]: The name of a tract of ground. All the lands belonging to a village are divided into such tracts, every tract having particular qualifications. These are subdivided, and the subdivisions distributed among the farmers: in this manner every farmer has a portion of every kind of ground belonging to the farm-manor.

[Footnote 8]: If the American reader is tempted to doubt or to contemn this stretch of economy, he must remember the different standards governing the people of the Old and the New World in this respect.

[Footnote 9]: Clotho holds the distaff, Lachesis spins the thread, and Atropos severs it.

[Footnote 10]: Black Forest provincialism:--a scamp, a loafer.

[Footnote 11]: Suabian.

[Footnote 12]: Brother.

[Footnote 13]: Son of God.