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Excerpt from Hauff's Karawane: With Poems by Various Authors; All Taken From the Editor's German Prose and Poetry for Early Reading Wilhelm hauff was born in Stuttgart, November, 1802, and died in the same town in November, 1827. In his preparation for college Hauff did not distin guish himself as a student, but from his early boyhood he displayed much talent as a story-teller. He studied theology at the University Of Tiibingen; instead Of taking orders in the church, however, he entered a nobleman's family as tutor. There for the entertain ment Of his pupils he wrote the Tales, Of which The Caravan is a part. These stories always have delighted young and Old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.