Black Forest Village Stories. Auerbach Berthold

of village mayor, elected by the farmers out of their own number. Very little of the feudal tenure remains in the Black Forest, the peasants being almost everywhere lords of the soil.

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Bartholomew's Sebastian's.

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Not a lord of the manor, according to the English acceptation of the term, but a sort of village mayor, elected by the farmers out of their own number. Very little of the feudal tenure remains in the Black Forest, the peasants being almost everywhere lords of the soil.

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A ring of hard wood or stone fixed to the end of the spindle, to weigh it down and improve its turning.

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About half a cent.

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And thereby escape being taken as a recruit.

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Joseph; Joe.

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The name of a tract of ground. All the lands belonging to a village are divided into such tracts, every tract having particular qualifications. These are subdivided, and the subdivisions distributed among the farmers: in this manner every farmer has a portion of every kind of ground belonging to the farm-manor.