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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. After Katel was gone, Fritz went to the kitchen and lighted a candle, in order to take a look over his cellar and choose a few bottles of good old wine to celebrate the festival of spring. His broad, good-humored face beamed with inward contentment as he looked forward in imagination to a long series of happy days following each other in close succession, even to autumn?to the asparagus fete, the bovling parties at the Pannier of Flowers outside Hunebourg, the fishing excursions with Christel, his farm-manager at Meiseuthal, the gliding down the Los- ser in a boat, under the nickering shadows of the great elms, which hung over it, and almost met at the top; then Christel, with the fishing-pole on his shoulder, crying out Halt when they were close to the trout- pool, suddenly spreading out his net in a circle like an immense spider's web over the glassy water, and drawing it in again all alive with the sparkling fish. He saw all this already in imagination, and a great many things besides; the setting out for the chase in the beech forest near Katzenback, the chw-d, -banc full of merry fellows, their high leather gaiters buckled tightly to their legs, their game-bags strapped on their backs over their grey blouses, their shot-bags and powder- horns slung over their hips, their double-barrelled gunsbetween their knees, the butt resting in the straw at their feet?all huddled pell-mell together. The dogs tied behind, snapping, barking, pulling, and he himself on the box driving up to Roedig the gamekeeper's lodge, and then seeing the rest of the party off, whilst he stayed behind himself to look after the dinner, to fry the onions and put the wine-flasks in the coolers. Then the return of the sportsmen in the evening, some with empty bags, and others blowing th...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217215213 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217215211 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 226 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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