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We’re there.
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Nobody can hear anything.
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This is your uncle.
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We have to go around to the other side.
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At last, we’re home.
a
Aunt Mitzi, my sister. She’s sick.
b
Let’s get undressed.
c
Tonight, Lisbeth, you’ll sleep with the tadpole in this bed. You can hang the wet clothes over the oven.
d
Ask Karl.….
e
He waited for the train at seven, but he didn’t get the telegram later on account of the bad weather. It hailed and the fields and many of the fruit trees are ruined.
f
Karel will sleep in the hayloft, and Bubi and I will sleep over the stove. Just for tonight.
g
Make sure you don’t fall off of there.
h
That’s corn.
i
All the beds are stuffed with corn husks.