In one scene in this work, two children dismember a doll stuffed with bran, after which they trap a fly in the doll's head an
In one scene in this work, two children dismember a doll stuffed with bran, after which they trap a fly in the doll's head and bury it. The female protagonist makes up a story that her fiancee has won a hundred thousand gulden in the lottery in order to trick a woman into taking some of her possessions, after which that protagonist hangs up the key to her house on a halberd and abandons it. The main protagonists of this work dance together at a fair to music played by a black fiddler, a figure who reappears throughout this story, once accusing the parents of the protagonists of stealing his land. A conflict breaks out between Marti and Manz over the ownership of a field, which leads to them forbidding their children to see each other, and in the end, those children consummate a mock marriage in a boat and drown themselves. Set, like many of its author's stories, in the village of Seldwyla, FTP, identify this novella about the doomed romance between Sali and Verena, written by Gottfried Keller.
In one scene in this work, two children dismember a doll stuffed with bran, after which they trap a fly in the doll's head and bury it.
A {Village Romeo and Juliette} (or {Romeo und Julia auf der Dorfe})