~B. 1. After the Seven Years’ War we were all in great distress. 2. My wife and I were living at that time in a small hut not far from the town [of] Emden. 3. Though (~obgleich~) we were both very economical, (~so~) we nevertheless (~doch~) remained poor.~ ~4. Now I had had a strange dream one winter‿morning. 5. I had been dreaming what‿follows (~folgendes~): I was walking up and down on the bridge in front of the town‿hall of Emden. 6. The sun was already about to set, and it was growing colder and colder (always colder). 7. Nobody had bothered himself about me or spoken with me. 8. But just as (~gerade wie~) I was thinking (~denken~) to (~bei~) myself: I had better (~will lieber~) go home, an old woman (~Weib~) who was quite lame (~lahm~) stepped up to me and said: “Young man, if you go across the Ems and turn first to‿the‿right and then to‿the‿left, (~so~) you will get to a crossroads. 9. At the crossroads you will see a hut and behind (~hinter~) the hut a tall (~hoch~) pear‿tree. 10. Under this pear‿tree a Frenchman (has) buried (~vergraben~) a treasure during (~während~) the war. 11. The Frenchman is dead, and I myself cannot...”~ ~12. Here I woke up (~aufwachen~) and saw my wife sitting (_infinitive_) at the hearth (and) cooking potatoes. 13. Quite out‿of‿breath I rushed up to her (~auf sie zu~) and told her my dream, for all that (~was~) the lame old woman had said pointed to (~passen auf~; _acc._) our house. 14. “Dreams are bubbles,” said my wife; “sit down and wait till (~bis~) the potatoes are done (~gar~)!” 15. When, however, I actually (~wirklich~) fetched a spade and began to dig, she thought I was crazy.~ ~16. Well (~nun~), what was I to (~sollen~) find? An earthen pot! 17. And if you (~ihr~) ask me: “Was [there] anything in‿it (~darin~)?” (~so~) I say: “It was not empty (~leer~),” for soon afterward we built (us) a new house.~ ~18. But (~doch~; _without inversion_) my story is not yet at (~zu~) [an] end. 19. Outside (~außen~) on the pot [there] was some writing which neither my wife nor I could read, but we didn’t bother ourselves much about‿it (~darum~). 20. One day, however, a Dutch parson who was taking a short rest at our house saw the old pot up on the cupboard and read the writing. 21. “What does this mean?” he asked. “I read here that a still larger pot stands under this [one], but I don’t see it.” 22. “That we don’t know, (Mr.) Parson,” answered my wife quickly.~ ~23. Before evening, however, we not only knew what it meant, but we also had dug‿out (~ausgraben~) the larger pot, and there (~es~) was more money in‿it than in the smaller [one]. 24. Now, wasn’t that an odd dream?~ Der Zwerg und die Gerstenähre.