Aloys Author:Berthold Auerbach General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: Holt Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select fro... more »m more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " If you want to make a fool of somebody, then get some one like yourself -- I mean as young as you are." " I am not trying to make a fool of you. I am from Nordstetten in America, and I am the son of Bartly's Bast's Aloys." "What! the son of the Gawk? Donner und Blitz ! Who can tell what one will not live to see ? Is your father along with you ? " " No, I left him at home." " Then I say, God greet thee! Yes, yes, America comes to us. Formerly, it was supposed that there was only a way from here to America, but now there is also a way that leads from America hither. You have, likely, come on account of the inheritance of your grandfather's sister in See- bronn?" " You have hit it." " Who-would have imagined that there would be anything to inherit there ? I am also related to your mother in the third generation, or, maybe, in the fourth ; namely -- " And now was displayed a genealogical tree which in all its ramifications was hard to climb. The old man could not do it himself, and concluded, " Well, anyhow, we are related -- mayst rely upon that. But, thank God ! I have no need of anything in that quarter." Young Aloys went on farther, but bystanders must have already announced who he was, for out of all the houses came greetings, and he heard them say behind him, " that is the son of the Gawk." At the house of Zundelmann there came an old woman to meet him, who while still at some distance cried out, weeping, " Oh, my Mechtilda's own son ! " When she stood before him she could hardly speak for weeping and sobbing. The new comer offered his hand and spoke kind and soot...« less