TONI, THE LITTLE WOODCARVER***
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TONI, THE LITTLE WOOD-CARVER
by
JOHANNA SPYRI
Author of _Heidi_
Translated by Helen B. Dole
1920
New York Thomas Y. Crowell Company Publishers
[Illustration: Toni the Little Woodcarver.]
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[Illustration: In front of him next to the wall, stood a glass case.]
CONTENTS
AT HOME IN THE LITTLE STONE HUT
A HARD SENTENCE
UP IN THE MOUNTAINS
IN THE SANITARIUM
CHAPTER FIRST
AT HOME IN THE LITTLE STONE HUT
High up in the Bernese Oberland, quite a distance above the meadow-encircled hamlet of Kandergrund, stands a little lonely hut, under the shadow of an old fir-tree. Not far away rushes down from the wooded heights of rock the Wild brook, which in times of heavy rains, has carried away so many rocks and bowlders that when the storms are ended a ragged mass of stones is left, through which flows a swift, clear stream of water. Therefore the little dwelling near by this brook is called the stone hut.
Here lived the honest day-laborer Toni, who conducted himself well in every farm-house, where he went to work, for he was quiet and industrious, punctual at his tasks, and reliable in every way.
In his hut at home he had a young wife and a little boy, who was a joy to both of them. Near the hut in the little shed was the goat, the milk of which supplied food for the mother and child, while the father received his board through the week on the farms where he worked from morning until night. Only on Sunday was he at home with his wife and little Toni. The wife Elsbeth, kept her little house in good order; it was narrow and tiny, but it always looked so clean and cheerful that every one liked to come into the sunny room, and the father, Toni, was never so happy as when he was at home in the stone hut with his little boy on his knee.
