~A.~ 1. Konjugieren Sie: »Ich hatte mich verirrt«! 2. Wenn Sie die Geschichte mit der Überschrift »Ein Traum« in diesem Buche gelesen haben, so sagen Sie mir, wie dort die Erdäpfel genannt wurden! 3. Wie sieht ein Eidotter aus? 4. Wie erklären Sie den Konjunktiv »solle« in dem Relativsatz »welches sie zum Andenken behalten solle«? 5. Ziehen Sie die drei Wörter »Fürst des Landes« in eins zusammen! 6. Was für Boden würden Sie wählen, wenn Sie gute Erdäpfel pflanzen und ernten wollten? 7. Warum wollten die Schildwachen und Lakaien den Bauer mit seinem Korbe nicht durchlassen? 8. Wozu lud der Bauer den Fürsten ein, als er ihm die Kartoffeln brachte? 9. Warum hatte der Fürst dem Bruder des Köhlers das Pferd nicht schon lange abgekauft? 10. Ging der Bruder des Köhlers allein mit seinem Pferde nach dem Schloß des Fürsten? 11. Worauf hatte des Köhlers Bruder gerechnet? (Antwort: Er hatte darauf gerechnet, daß usw.) 12. Hatte er sich dabei verrechnet oder nicht? 13. Wo blieb das Pferd? ~B. 1. Good morning, Mr. Collier. 2. Good morning, Mrs. Fisher. How do you do (goes it [to] you), if I may (~dürfen~) ask? 3. [I] thank [you], very well. I see you [have] come with two big baskets to-day. What are you bringing us? 4. New potatoes in (the) one and eggs in the other. 5. I am very glad of it (that rejoices, ~freuen~, me very), for I know that your eggs are always fresh and good, and my husband (man), who cares still more for (~noch lieber essen~) potatoes than I, always says, nowhere in the world [do] they grow better than in your sandy forest‿soil. 6. In‿that he is (has) right, (gracious) Madam (~Frau~). Has he also told you when he (has) tasted our potatoes for (~zu~) the first time (~Mal~)? 7. No. When was that? 8. About (~ungefähr~) eight weeks ago (before about eight weeks), shortly before your wedding (~Hochzeit~). He had lost his way in the forest and was‿obliged‿to stay‿over‿night (~herbergen~) with us. My wife served him [some] of our very‿best potatoes, and as (~da~) we had only one large bed in the house, he had‿to sleep in the hayloft. When he started off again the next morning, he told us that the potatoes had tasted to him even (~noch~) better than our fresh eggs, and that he had slept on the fragrant hay as on the softest down. 9. I hope (~hoffen~), Mr. Collier, that he paid you well for the dish [of] potatoes and his night’s‿lodging. 10. Only too well, Madam. Before he went away, he gave our little daughter a goldpiece, and it wasn’t a week before (~so~) he sent (~schicken~) his hired man with a second return‿present. 11. I really (~doch~) should‿like‿to (~mögen~) know what kind of present that was. 12. This horse here, a magnificent creature! I should‿be‿willing‿to bet that our gracious sovereign himself has no better [one] in his stables. And now be so good, Mrs. Fisher, and accept these eggs and potatoes as [a] wedding‿present (~Hochzeitsgeschenk~) from us. If they agree with you, [there] are (still) more at your service. 13.