love very much the man what play the long
horn like this" -- she indicated a slide trom-
bone. "They go to school together and are
friends from boys. But my mama, she want
Ambrosch for be rich, with many cattle."

"Your mama," I said angrily, "wants other
people's things."

"Your grandfather is rich," she retorted
fiercely. "Why he not help my papa? Am-
brosch be rich, too, after while, and he pay
back. He is very smart boy. For Ambrosch
my mama come here."

Ambrosch was considered the important
person in the family. Mrs. Shimerda and
Antonia always deferred to him, though he
was often surly with them and contemptuous
toward his father. Ambrosch and his mother
had everything their own way. Though An-
tonia loved her father more than she did any
one else, she stood in awe of her elder brother.

After I watched Antonia and her mother
go over the hill on their miserable horse, carry-
ing our iron pot with them, I turned to grand-
mother, who had taken up her darning, and
said I hoped that snooping old woman wouldn't
come to see us any more.

Grandmother chuckled and drove her bright

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