Excerpt from The Mouse Miller: And Other Stories
Like a glow from the comfort within, sighed poor Gottlieb, with envy in his heart, for his flour bin stood nearly empty, the few pfennigs brought in by the day’s baking would barely eke out the rent due on the morrow, and the one loaf left on his counter would be his only Christ mas feast.
Gottlieb was turning toward the end of his shop where the oven stood when the door opened and two women came in, the Herr Professor’s housekeeper, a buxom young female, following a ragged, aged dame who produced three bent and blackened coins and quaveringly asked for a loaf.
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