Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter

Thomas Carlyle, 1763-1825 Jean Paul, Johann Karl August Musã¤Us, Ludwig Tieck

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TALES
BY
RICHTER.MUSJEUS, TIECK,
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN
BY
CARLYLE.THOMAS
TWOIN VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
[1827.]
LONDON:
AND PICCADILLY.CHAPMAN HALL, 193
1874.LONDON :
ROBSON AND PANCRAS N.W.SONS, PRINTERS, ROAD,CONTENTS.
TIECK :
PAGE
THE ELVES . . . . . . . 'i
THE GOBLET 21
RICHTER :
.SCHMELZLE'S TO FL^TZ . .JOURNEY 39
LIFE OF FIXLEINQUINTUS 95THE ELVES.
"WHERE is our little ?" said the father.Mary
" ourShe is out the there withgreen neigh-playing upon
thebour's mother.boy," replied
"
I wish not run and lose saidthemselves,"they may away
"
he are so; they thoughtless."
The mother looked for the little and themones, brought
their luncheon. "It is said the "andwarm,"evening boy;
forhad a the red cherries."longingMary
" Have a said the "and do not runcare, children," mother,
too far from and not into the wood Father and I arehome, ;
to the fields."going
"Andres answered : Never the woodLittle fear, frightens
nearus we shall sit here the where there are
; house, peopleby
us."
The mother went and soon came out with herin, again
the fieldshusband. locked the and turned towardsdoor,They
and see their in theto look after their labourers, hay-harvest
meadow. Their house a little encircledlay upon green height,
enclosed their fruita of which likewiseby pretty ring paling,
The hamlet stretched somewhatand flower garden. deeper
and on the other side the castle of the Count.down, lay
nobleman and wasMartin rented the farm from this
;large
in contentment with his wife and child for he
;living only
saved some and had the of becomingyearly money, prospect
for the wasa man of substance hisby industry, ground pro-
and the Count not illiberal.ductive,
As he walked with his wife to the hefields, gazed cheerfully
BVOL. II.LUDWIG TIECK.2
"What a different look this Bri-and said : has,round, quarter
from the we lived in ! Here it is all soformerlyplacegitta,
is with fruit-the whole bedecked
; village thick-spreadinggreen
is full of beautiful herbs and flowers all thetrees the ;
; ground
and the inhabitants are at theirhouses are cheerful cleanly,
I could almost that thewoods are hereease : greenernay fancy
the bluer so far as the canthan and ; and,elsewhere, sky eye
have and in the bountifulreach, you pleasure delight beholding
Earth."
"And whenever cross the saidstream,"you Brigitta,
" in another all is so andas it world,are, were, drearyyou
but traveller declares that our is thewithered; every village
fairest in the far and near."country
"All but that said her husband "do but look
;fir-ground,"
back to how dark and dismal that is init, solitary spot lying
the scene : the fir-trees with the huts behindgay dingy smoky
athe ruined the brook withthem, stalls, flowing past sluggish
melancholy."
"
It is "if but thattrue," Brigitta ; youreplied approach
disconsolate and know notsad,spot, you grow you why.
What sort of can be .that live andthey there,people keep
themselves so from the rest of as ifus, had anseparate they
evil conscience ?"
"A miserable the Farmercrew," :replied young "gipsies,
that steal and cheat in other and haveseemingly, quarters,
their hoard and here. I wonder that hishiding-place only
suffers them."Lordship
"Who said the with anknows," accent of "butwife, pity,
be out of toperhaps they may poor people, wishing, shame,
conceal their noafter one can ill ofpoverty ; for, all, say aught
them the that do not to
; only is, andthing they go church,
none knows how live for the little which indeedthey ; garden,
seems cannot them andaltogether waste, fieldspossiblysupport ;
have none."they
"God said as wentknows," Martin, "whatthey along,
trade follow no mortal comes to them for thethey ; ; place
live in is as if bewitched and sothey thatexcommunicated,
even our wildest fellows will not venture into it."
Such conversation while to the fields.they pursued, walking