Chapter 2

But you know, ministers have to find out all about such men as David; and I have found out enough to make me feel sure he was once a little boy, just like one of you; that he had to learn verses, like you; and didn’t like (S. 20, N. 2, A) it, like you; and that he did not like to go to bed early, or to get up early, like you.

I rather fear that, in the summer, he ate green apples, unripe melons, hard peaches, and sour plums, as you do; and got sick, and was very sorry, and had to take medicine, as you do; that he said he would (App. § 28) never do it again, and that he then never did do it again, as I hope you will neither.

Use the 2nd pers. pl., and after the verb supply the adverb ‘+ja+’, which will be equivalent to the English ‘I am sure’.

+die Pfarrer+, before which supply the conj. +daß+. Have to = must; to find out, +aus´findig machen+; all — David = all (S. 3, N. 7) that relates (+sich beziehen+) to (auf) such men as David.

Say ‘to (S. 19, N. 7) be convinced, that’, etc. Just — you, +wie ihr+.

The auxiliaries ‘=to have=’ and ‘=to be=’ followed by the infinitive of another verb, must generally be rendered by the auxiliary verb of mood ‘+=müssen=+’; as—I have to do it, +Ich muß es thun+.

+fast+, adv.; see S. 5, N. 2.

The subject ‘he’ must immediately follow the conj. ‘that’.

as you do, +wie ihr+.

that he became (+werden+) ill; ‘and — sorry’, say ‘felt (+empfinden+) bitter repentance’.

‘to take’, here +ein´nehmen+.

Here follows the pron. ‘it’.

+wie ihr es hoffentlich auch nicht wieder thun werdet.+

Section 63.

TENDER, TRUSTY, AND TRUE.