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Title: The black aunt. Stories and legends for children
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Fechner, Clara Volkmann
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Publisher: New York, R. Garrigue
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he came home and lightedthe candle and gave the boy the roll and the apple hewas very happy and thought he was quite rich. Andwhen his mother told the boy that she had saved a littlewood and would warm the room and he should h ve a 63 mug or two of warm milk in the morning, he was over-joyed and danced and clapped his little hands with delight.Accordingly he laid his roll in the table drawer in orderto eat it with his milk, and played with great pleasurewith the golden apple but did not want to eat it becauseit shone and glittered so beautifully. The next morningwhen the room was warm and the boy had got his milkand taken out the roll, he saw a handsome but very palelittle boy looking in through the dim window which washalf covered with frost; the little stranger looked verypoor and seemed to be very cold. Then our little friendwas sorry for the poor child out doors because he hadto hunger and freeze on Christmas day; and he laid awayhis roll and set down his mug of milk and went and
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64 ©pened the door and called the stranger in to warm him-self by the stove, and he shared his milk and roll withhim and at last he said: a Now that I have a guest today I will eat my handsome apple with him.» So sayinghe divided the golden apple with the strange child.Finally the visiter went away with many thanks andmany wishes of happiness and blessings for his littlebenefactor. But it did not seem as if these wishes wereto be fulfilled, for the poor people fell into greater andgreater poverty and suffering. Very soon the husbandand after him the wife became ill and could not earnanything. So they lived a whole year in hunger and trialimd when Christmas eve came round again the father hadnothing to buy a taper or a roll for the child and therewas not a penny for warm milk, nor even anything towarm the room with. But the child had been taught topray, for his parents were pious and trusted in aid fromGod and comforted their child when he was cold andhungry, and they told him that G

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