Part 48

Use the Perfect. See S. 48, N. 2.

a great deal = much.

lived in = belonged to, +an´gehören+, which governs the dat.

Substitute the adverb +noch+ for the indef. art.

See S. 64, N. 7.

best and most tender-feeling.

Say ‘of whom I have ever heard’.

Say ‘how good, tender and true he was’.

+voll von erst soeben aus der Schale gekrochenen Vögeln.+

Use the Perfect.

To avoid repetition, turn the words ‘a — shell’ by ‘such (+so+) young little birds’, and render ‘little birds’ by forming a diminutive of +Vogel+.

+zart.+

+Dingerchen.+

Say ‘almost as naked as an oyster’.

‘to gape’, here +den Schnabel auf´sperren+.

very — do, +fast wie ihr den Mund aufsperrt+.

to preach a sermon, +eine Predigt halten+.

Section 66.

TENDER, TRUSTY, AND TRUE.

VI.

Well, little (S. 10, N. 2) Channing knew the birds did not gape because he preached a long sermon, but (S. 6, N. 10) because they were hungry. So what did he do? He ran straight home (S. 63, N. 8), got some nice soft crumbs of bread, and fed the little birds with them (S. 4, N. 5, B); and after that he fed them regularly every day after having come home from school. But one day (S. 19, N. 2), when he went to the nest, there it lay on the ground, torn and bloody, and the little birds all dead; and the father-bird was crying on a wall, and the mother-bird was crying on a tree. Then little Channing tried to tell them that he did not kill their poor young brood; that he never could do such a mean, cruel thing as that, and that, on the contrary, he had tried to feed them. But it was no use; the little birds could not understand him, and kept on crying; and at last he sat down, and wept bitterly.

Supply here the conj. +daß+.

Say ‘What did he therefore (+also+) do?’

+stracks.+

+holte sich.+

and — that, +und von da an+.

+so bald er von der Schule nach Hause gekommen war.+

This passage will read more elegantly by beginning with the conj. ‘when’, which must be followed by the subject ‘he’. ‘But’ should then be rendered by +jedoch+, which takes the third place.