. Romantic Germany. a baldachin. She is supposed to beno other than the old heathen goddess who sent thesacred snow, and who once, in the form of the HolyVirgin, appeared to a maiden lost in the woods be-yond the wall and led her back to her home. She itwas who used to stand on the ramparts in time ofsiege and catch the cannon-balls of the foe in herapron. So that, out of gratitude, the Hildesheimersgraved her image on their municipal banner and seal. On the clock-tower, below the red-frocked townpiper, who pipes the halves and trumpets the hours,is the head of a Jew who opens and closes his e
. Romantic Germany. a baldachin. She is supposed to beno other than the old heathen goddess who sent thesacred snow, and who once, in the form of the HolyVirgin, appeared to a maiden lost in the woods be-yond the wall and led her back to her home. She itwas who used to stand on the ramparts in time ofsiege and catch the cannon-balls of the foe in herapron. So that, out of gratitude, the Hildesheimersgraved her image on their municipal banner and seal. On the clock-tower, below the red-frocked townpiper, who pipes the halves and trumpets the hours,is the head of a Jew who opens and closes his eyesand mouth at the sound of the trumpet, as if in painat the thought of another unprofitable hour gone call it the head of a would-be traitor who wascaught in the fact and shut in the Rathaus dungeonto die of starvation. In the northern wall a measure is chiseled, withthese words: Dat is de Garen mathe. (This isthe measure for yarn.) You are told that thewidow of a local yarn-dealer was once wakened by 211. R\^TiS^^^^~ THfc. uLD- HuLbh HILDESHEIM AND FAIRYLAND her late spouse, who complained bitterly that he hadto suffer so much pain in his present home because,in life, he had bought with a long measure and soldwith a short one. Whereupon he cast an iron rulerupon the table, crying, Dat is de Garen mathe!and vanished. When the widow came to her sensesthe ruler had disappeared, but the measure wasburned through the table, through all the floors ofthe house, and so deep beneath the cellar that thebottom of the hole could not be plumbed. Then themagistrate graved the length of the measure uponthe wall of the Rathaus as an abiding stimulus tohonesty. It is possible that the moral reaction afterthis incident inspired the rather optimistic inscrip-tion on the Kramergildehaus in the Andreas-Platz: Weget recht un glike, So werdet gi salich un ricke. (Weigh justly and equally, whichWill make you happy and rich.) What draws most of us, after all, to Hildesheim isnot the
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