Christmas Eve (Part 4, Conclusion)[translation and prose]
Hermand woke up first. He lay a little while looking about.--But there was something he did not understand. "Mother!" he said. If he knew it was Mother, or that is what he believed, he was home then, having traveled there some how;--but Mother was accordingly there and Mother had awakened always when her child called.... The poor widow and the grocer's house wife talked all the while. But Hermand did not follw a word of it; hence, Ernst had begun to tell rare amusing tales, so fine that never... Sign in to see full entry.