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May, Karl Friedrich, 1842-1912

"My Life and My Efforts"

As soon as I came into the hands of a
capable physician, my eyesight returned, and I became a most sound
and robust boy, who was strong enough to take on any other boy.
But, before I talk about myself, I have to devote some more time
to the surroundings, in which I have spent my earliest childhood.
Along with the house, mother had also inherited the debts,
associated with it. Interests had to be paid on them. Therefore,
all we got out of it was that we had to pay interests instead of
rent. Mother was economical, and father was so too in his own
way. But just as he was excessive in everything, in his love, his
rage, his work, his praise, his reprimand, so he was here as well
in is assessment of that small inheritance, which could only be an
incentive to continue saving money and to remove the debt from the
house. But though he did not take to the belief he had suddenly
become rich, he nonetheless presumed he could adopt a different
lifestyle, now. He stopped spending his entire life toiling at
the loom.


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