Come buy, buy, buy, my mother’s goods are cheap today.”Īn old woman came slowly across the market- place.
Little Jacob sat beside her and called out in his shrill little voice: “Come buy, come buy, fine cabbages, fresh herbs, early pears, fine ripe apples and apricots. She had a supply of cabbages and other vegetables, fresh herbs and seeds, and a smaller basket of earlv pears and apricots. One morning the cobbler’s wife was sitting in her accustomed place in the market. Very often he came back with a piece of money in his pocket, or at least with a cake, or some sweetmeats, for he was so pretty and obliging that people liked to see him in their homes. Although he was eight years of ge he was tall and well-grown, and so he sat by his mother’s side in the market-place, and acted as errand boy to the house- wives and cooks who made large purchases from his mother, carrying the fruit and vegetables home for them. The cobbler and his wife had a beautiful litde boy, named Jacob. She had many customers, for she was clean and tidy, and had a knack of setting out her wares to be best advantage. His wife sold fruit and vegetables, which she grew in a little plot of ground outside the city gates.
The good man sat all day and mended boots and shoes he made new ones too, if he could get a customer to trust him with the job, but then he had first to buy the leather, for he was too poor to keep a stock in hand. Many years ago, in a certain city in Germany, there lived an honest cobbler and his wife.
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