Black Forest Village Stories Part 60

and the nuptial tie was fastened with joyous earnestness, Blessings attend it!

FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Bartholomew's Sebastian's.]

[Footnote 2: Not a lord of the manor, according to the English acceptation of the term, but a sort of village mayor, elected by the farmers out of their own number. Very little of the feudal tenure remains in the Black Forest, the peasants being almost everywhere lords of the soil.]

[Footnote 3: A ring of hard wood or stone fixed to the end of the spindle, to weigh it down and improve its turning.]

[Footnote 4: About half a cent.]

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

[Footnote 6: Joseph; Joe.]

[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 G.o.d.]

[Footnote 14: What temptation a counterfeit wild cat holds out to the traveller to sit down upon it, the translator is not in a condition to explain,--probably on instance of the matter-of-fact character of the American mind.]