Dietrich, the sheriff of Wildbach, who had once owned considerable property, had for several years been falling into bad ways and by this means had lost his position and his salary. His only occupation was cutting a few tufts of grass from his uncul-tivated fields, and carrying it home to feed his poor little goat; for himself and his foster-child there were only a few potatoes and a little milk.
After dinner Dietrich would vanish and not appear again until toward night to milk the goat. Then he was seen no more at home; but everyone knew that he sat in the tavern until late at night, and that soon house and land and goat would be taken from him to pay his debts.
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