Occupation?
"Please sir, I go to school and learn my lessons, but I play a good deal too."
"We will write 'spinster,'" he said, frowning fiercely.
"Now listen to me, child, if you do not wish to go to prison." The whole family shuddered with horror.
"Take all those silver things off the tree. They are 'found treasure,' and belong to the State. You ought to have declared them at once, and saved me all this trouble," he said.
Hansi began to cry.
Mrs Herzchen was very angry, "Why don't you mind your own business?" she said. "These things are our property. You will come and demand the clothes off our backs next."
"Be thankful that I do not accuse you of stealing these valuables," answered the fellow in a terrible voice.
"But are you sure they are not chocolate after all?" he said. "They look remarkably like it, covered with silver paper, you know."
He examined them carefully and ejaculating, "Well, I never," tossed them all into a leather wallet that he had brought with him.