Auerbach writes of the farmers, millers and young lovers of his native Black Forest with affection and close observation. Here are the gawky lad who once cut the narrator a willow whistle, the old soldier with his pipe of war, the manor-house farmer’s daughter Vefela, and a son sent off to the saw-mill to forget the girl his father will not allow.
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