Breisig, Lining and Mining 
 
Conrad Beckmann, Artist 
 
 
 
L HlvING and Mining are twins whom the old In§Jector Brdsig, "Everybody's

         Uncle," loves as if they were his own children. As Lining was
born 
         half an hour before Mining, Brdsig always appeals to her as "the
oldest! 
In the absence of their parents in the hay-field, the little ones put on
their 
grandfather's  best wig and their grandmother's Sunday      cap, and dance

and fump about, until they throw down the family money-jug and see it, with

terror, break in pieces on the ground. How to get it mended!   No other way

than to take it to the blacksmith ! But Uncle Brasig appears, and hope revives
! 
They run to him with the broken jug, and beg him to get the blacksmith to
mend it.! 
"Wow!" cries Bra sig, " what will stupid mankind think of
next!   Lining, you 
are the eldest; I thougbt you would know better! And, Mining, stop crying,
my 
own little pet, and next market-day I will buy you a new money-jug ! Now,

along with you into the house ! " And so he gently pushes the little
girls before him, 
and follows them, in one hand the wig, and in the other the cap, as we see
him here 
in Conrad Beckmann's charming picture. 
 
 
Frit{ Reuter s " Ut mine Stromtid.'"