Section 61. TENDER[1], TRUSTY, AND TRUE. I.
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Section 61. TENDER[1], TRUSTY, AND TRUE. I.
(Extract from a sermon preached to a congregation of children at Chicago.)
When[2] I was in the Sunday-school, and had just begun to read about[3] David, I[4] did not feel sure he ever was a real baby, and had to be fed with a teaspoon; or that he ever was a real little boy[5] that[6] went to school as I did, and played marbles[7], and had a peg-top[8], a jack-knife[9], some slate pencils, ever[10] so many buttons, and a piece of string[11], all in one pocket; that[12] he ever had to try hard not to cry when he went to school very cold[13] mornings; or[14] that the teacher spoke sharp to him, when the little chap had tried[15] his best to get[16] his lesson, and[17] did not get it very well.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Zartfühlend, zuverlässig und treu.Note 2 · Say ‘when I went to the Sunday-school’, and supply the adverb noch after the subject.Note 3 · [1] Zartfühlend, zuverlässig und treu. [2] Say ‘when I went to the Sunday-school’, and supply the adverb noch after the subject. [3] über. [Note 4 · 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 Note 5 · Junge. The auxiliary ‘sei’ may again be omitted here.Note 6 · that = who; as I did = ‘like myself’, which place immediately after the relat. pron.Note 7 · Schusser. Remember that both this and the next clause are depending on the relative clause ‘that — did’; place, therefore, the verb ‘played’Note 8 · Kreisel, m.Note 9 · Taschenmesser, n.Note 10 · ever so many, eine Unzahl von, i.e. no end of.Note 11 · ein Stück Bindfaden.Note 12 · that — hard, daß er sich je habe anstrengen müssen.Note 13 · cold mornings, an einem sehr kalten Morgen, which place after the subject. ‘To go to school’, zur (or in die) Schule gehen.Note 14 · Say ‘or that the teacher had ever scolded (schelten) the little fellow (Bursche), when he had’, etc.Note 15 · to try one’s best, sich Mühe geben.Note 16 · to get one’s lesson = to learn one’s lesson, seine Lektion erlernen.Note 17 · Say ‘and had not learnt it well’, and supply the adverb doch (nevertheless) after the objective pronoun ‘it’. For the position of the verb s