The Children of the World - Paul Heyse

[Footnote 1]: The word könig signifies "king."

[Footnote 2]: The German word for "fence" is zaun, and zaun-könig means "hedge-sparrow."--Tr.

[Footnote 3]: Commission paid a person who arranges marriages. Tr.

[Footnote 4]: Fee paid a marriage broker.

[Footnote 5]: The equivalent for "mitten." Tr.

[Footnote 6]: Epsom salts.

[Footnote 7]: Truffles are found by means of dogs which have an unusually keen scent.

[Footnote 8]: A less ceremonious form of the pronoun you.

[Footnote 9]: The German phrase for being hen-pecked.