Part 45

Say ‘when I went to the Sunday-school’, and supply the adverb noch after the subject.

+über.+

Say ‘I could scarcely imagine, that he ever really had been a little child and had to be fed with a teaspoon (+und mit einem Theelöffel habe gefüttert werden müssen+)’. By carefully reading §§ 29 and 30 of the Appendix, the student will see that the verbs depending on the governing verb ‘imagine’ must stand in the Perfect of the Subjunctive Mood. According to S. 52, N. 8, however, the auxiliary ‘sei’ may be omitted in the clause ‘that he ever really had been a little child’.

+Junge.+ The auxiliary ‘+sei+’ may again be omitted here.

that = who; as I did = ‘like myself’, which place immediately after the relat. pron.

+Schusser+. Remember that both this and the next clause are depending on the relative clause ‘that — did’; place, therefore, the verb ‘played’ after ‘marbles’, and the verb ‘had’ after ‘peg-top’.

+Kreisel+, m.

+Taschenmesser+, n.

ever so many, +eine Unzahl von+, i.e. no end of.

+ein Stück Bindfaden.+

that — hard, +daß er sich je habe anstrengen müssen+.

cold mornings, +an einem sehr kalten Morgen+, which place after the subject. ‘To go to school’, +zur+ (or +in die+) +Schule gehen+.

Say ‘or that the teacher had ever scolded (+schelten+) the little fellow (+Bursche+), when he had’, etc.

to try one’s best, +sich Mühe geben+.

to get one’s lesson = to learn one’s lesson, +seine Lektion erlernen+.

Say ‘and had not learnt it well’, and supply the adverb +doch+ (nevertheless) after the objective pronoun ‘it’. For the position of the verb see App. § 17.

Section 62.

TENDER, TRUSTY, AND TRUE.

II.

But you know, ministers have to find out all about such men as David; and I have found out enough to make me feel sure he was once a little boy, just like one of you; that he had to learn verses, like you; and didn’t like (S. 20, N. 2, A) it, like you; and that he did not like to go to bed early, or to get up early, like you.

I rather fear that, in the summer, he ate green apples, unripe melons, hard peaches, and sour plums, as you do; and got sick, and was very sorry, and had to take medicine, as you do; that he said he would (App. § 28) never do it again, and that he then never did do it again, as I hope you will neither.

Use the 2nd pers. pl., and after the verb supply the adverb ‘+ja+’, which will be equivalent to the English ‘I am sure’.

+die Pfarrer+, before which supply the conj. +daß+. Have to = must; to find out, +aus´findig machen+; all — David = all (S. 3, N. 7) that relates (+sich beziehen+) to (auf) such men as David.

Say ‘to (S. 19, N. 7) be convinced, that’, etc. Just — you, +wie ihr+.

The auxiliaries ‘=to have=’ and ‘=to be=’ followed by the infinitive of another verb, must generally be rendered by the auxiliary verb of mood ‘+=müssen=+’; as—I have to do it, +Ich muß es thun+.

+fast+, adv.; see S. 5, N. 2.

The subject ‘he’ must immediately follow the conj. ‘that’.

as you do, +wie ihr+.