Chapter I: Preface

In the translation of "Heimatlos" an effort has been made to hold as far as possible to the original, in order to give the reader of English the closest possible touch with the story as it stands in the German. This method retains the author's delightful simplicity, and it leaves revealed, even in her roundabout way of telling things, her charming adaptability as a writer for children.

The adult reader will pardon the repetitions, where the same thought is expressed in different ways, when it is remembered that the author is making doubly sure of reaching the understanding of the young mind. The literal rendering has been sacrificed only in a few instances, and then because of local idioms and national standards.

It is the hope of the translator that these two stories, so widely read by the children of Germany, will help our own little ones, in these days of general prosperity, to appreciate the everyday comforts of home, to which they grow so accustomed as often to take them for granted, with little evidence of gratitude.

E. S. H.

CONTENTS

LAKE SILS AND LAKE GARDA

CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE QUIET HOME 1
II. IN SCHOOL 5
III. THE SCHOOLMASTER'S VIOLIN 10
IV. THE DISTANT LAKE WITHOUT A NAME 17
V. THE LAKE HAS A NAME 22
VI. RICO'S MOTHER 25
VII. A PRECIOUS LEGACY AND A PRECIOUS PRAYER 28
VIII. AT LAKE SILS 33
IX. A PUZZLING OCCURRENCE 39
X. A LITTLE LIGHT 43
XI. A LONG JOURNEY 45
XII. THE JOURNEY CONTINUED 54
XIII. LAKE GARDA 60
XIV. NEW FRIENDS 67
XV. AN EMPHATIC APPEAL 82
XVI. THE ADVICE 86
XVII. OVER THE MOUNTAINS 94
XVIII. TWO HAPPY TRAVELERS 103
XIX. CLOUDS AT LAKE GARDA 111
XX. AT HOME 117
XXI. SUNSHINE AT LAKE GARDA 127

WISELI FINDS HER PLACE

CHAPTER PAGE
I. COASTING 133
II. THE HOME ON THE HILL 138
III. ANOTHER HOME 155
IV. THE GOTTI HOME 163
V. HOW LIFE CONTINUES AND SUMMER COMES 174
VI. A NEW FEATURE 192
VII. BRIGHTER DAYS FOR THE PATIENT
AND FOR SOME ONE ELSE 205
VIII. THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS 216

PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY 231

HEIMATLOS

LAKE SILS AND LAKE GARDA