~B. 1. First (~zuerst~) the teacher asked one of the boys why Doctor Lindow had been sentenced to ten‿years’ imprisonment‿in‿a‿fortress, and the boy--I think it was John Miller--answered that Lindow as [a] student had committed (~begehen~) a political crime (~Verbrechen~). 2. The second question was, what had made the prisoner so sad (~traurig~) on Sundays, and Mary (~Marie~) Black said, just on such days he had seen so many happy and free people on the highways, and that had intensified his own (~eigen~) longing for freedom. 3. Then I was asked whether I remembered (~sich erinnern~; _why past subj., and not pres. subj.?_) the distance between the top (~Gipfel~) of the linden‿tree and the prisoner, and I said: “About forty feet”; but that was wrong, for it says (~heißen~) in the book, “not more than twenty.” 4. The teacher’s next question was, what the word “~Legitimationspapiere~” meant (~bedeuten~), and none of the boys and only one of the girls in the class (~Klasse~) knew (it) exactly (~genau~). 5. Another question which (_gen._) I remember and which nobody could answer (~beantworten~) correctly (~richtig~) in German was, what “~Regimentsmegären~” were, and some of us thought (~meinen~) the teacher ought to have asked us something else (~anderes~). 6. Well, and so on. One hard (~schwer~) question after another (the other); for example (~zum Beispiel~): How many times (~wievielmal~) did the sweet (~süß~) seventeen‿year‿old nod (with) her head before she ran toward her uncle’s house? What was her brother’s name (~heißen~)? How do you say in German: “I will pass over the next fortnight”? And how: “I shall pass over the next fortnight”? Why does the story-teller make (~lassen~) Lindow count only up‿to (~bis~) eight before he jumps‿off (~abspringen~),--why not up‿to nine? And then, of course (~natürlich~): That fateful kiss at the garden‿gate and behind the shrubbery! Why fateful? It was the first, wasn’t it? Also the last? Oh (~o~) no! The young people met each‿other (~sich~) again, many, many times (~Mal~), and she became his wife; and so (~also~): All’s well that ends well (~Ende gut, alles gut~), as the proverb (~Sprichwort~) has it (it says in‿the proverb).~ Wörterbuch. ~EXPLANATION OF THE ABBREVIATIONS AND THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE VOCABULARY.~ ~The vocabulary contains all words found in the text and exercises of this Reader, except such regularly inflected forms as even the beginner should recognize at sight.~ ~=Signs.= In indicating the inflection of nouns a dash (-) is used to represent the title-word; a dash with the umlaut-sign over it (̈–) represents the title-word with modification of the root vowel.~ ~=Nouns=, as a rule, are given in the nominative singular and the nominative plural, but the latter is omitted when it is identical with the former or is not in common use. The genitive singular is inserted between the two if it cannot be readily inferred from the nominative plural; thus: ~das Auge, -s, -n~.~