The Forest Schoolmaster
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The title page reads The Forest Schoolmaster by Peter Rosegger, with an authorized translation by Frances E. Skinner. The preface says its author was born in Steiermark, Austria, in a lonely mountain region, and led the life of a forest peasant until he reached the age of eighteen, when he became apprenticed to a travelling peasant tailor. A charcoal-burner repeats what Wurzentoni says: that the old schoolmaster knew a bit more than other people; a good bit more.
A charcoal-burner's talk has it that the schoolmaster has bewitched himself and, invisible, wanders around day and night in Winkelsteg. The speaker meets Aga, panting under a load of grass; she is gathering fodder for her goats, and the child is her little daughter. The speaker says Berthold, seeing the Edelweiss on the speaker's breast, says with a warning gesture that it is a dangerous weed.
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- Author
- Peter Rosegger
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
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- World Classics
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