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    The Story Of The Little Mamsell
    The Story Of The Little Mamsell
    The Story Of The Little Mamsell
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    The Story Of The Little Mamsell

    By Miss E. C. Emerson and Charlotte Niese

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Story Of The Little Mamsell - Miss E. C. Emerson

      Project Gutenberg's The Story Of The Little Mamsell, by Charlotte Niese

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      Title: The Story Of The Little Mamsell

      Author: Charlotte Niese

      Translator: Miss E. C. Emerson

      Release Date: October 27, 2007 [EBook #23221]

      Last Updated: February 4, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF THE LITTLE MAMSELL ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE STORY OF THE LITTLE MAMSELL

      By Charlotte Niese

      Translated from the German by Miss E. C. Emerson

      Have you got something good? Then put the basket down and go along home! This was one usual greeting from old Mahlmann when we brought him provisions. He was very old, and rarely out of his bed, only now and then on warm summer days he sat on the bench before his tiny cottage and basked in the sun. If a painter had ever strayed to our uninteresting little town he would certainly have put old Mahlmann's characteristic head on his canvas. He had a clever old face with a firm mouth and glittering eyes whose expression was so sombre and at the same time observant that we children imagined old Mahlmann was different from other people. And indeed so he was. To begin with he never thanked anyone for bringing him food; in fact he criticized freely the benefits he received. If one brought what was not to his liking, he would say: Go home and tell your mother old Mahlmann is not a waste-tub where you throw what's not fit to eat. You needn't come again either!

      In this manner he got himself into disfavor with many a good housewife, who would protest by all that was

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