Note 9 — Section 154. NEW-YEAR’S EVE. III.
Reading edition
[1] Say ‘fell down and left (zurück´lassen) a long line of light (Lichtstreifen, m.) in (an) the sky’.
[2] This sentence is best introduced by the grammatical subject ‘es’, see S. 104, N. 19.
[3] Say ‘alone of all’.
[4] that — fell; daß beim Herunterfallen eines Sternes; flight, Flug, m.; up to, zu, contracted with the dat. of the def. art.
[5] to throw around, um sich her verbreiten.
[6] bright = friendly; mild, sanft; loving, liebreich.
[7] the — box, die in der Schachtel sich noch befindlichen Zündhölzer (Comp. S. 48, N. 6).
[8] to keep with oneself, bei sich behalten, insep. comp. str. v. tr.
[9] zuvor.
[10] It will be best to begin this clause with the adv. ‘now’, and to turn the personal pronoun ‘she’ into the demonstrative pronoun ‘the same’, to agree with ‘grandmother’. This will commend itself in order to avoid ambiguity.
[11] Here follows the verb ‘flew’; in radiance and joy, freudestrahlend, adv.; high — heavens, mit ihr zum Himmel empor.
[12] any more, mehr, before the verb; ‘with’, here bei.
[13] erfrieren, insep. comp. str. v., to freeze to death.
[14] Liter. ‘of which nearly a whole box was burnt up’.
[15] Traumbild, n.