The little cow Berta E-Book

Axel Schauder

• Herausgeber: novum publishing
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 26

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

"This very special little cow, who was called Berta, was completely different. She didn't really obey anyone. She lived her own life. She often secretly disappeared from the barn early." Hans Julante is a poor farmer. So poor that he can no longer afford anything to eat or drink. Full of melancholy, he decides to sell his last cow, little Berta, to the cattle dealer Wallner. Berta, who doesn't really look like a cow at all, but more like a large deer, is not enthusiastic. Will she be able to escape the fate of ending up in the meat factory? A captivating children's book full of charm and wit that makes everyday life on the farm just as tangible as the food industry.

Leseprobe

Start

When Grandpa Axel was still a young boy, he lived with his family in the very south of Germany in the early 1950s, not far from the Austrian border. This, his refugee family, was quite poor. Back then, after the terrible war, many people still had little to eat, and often there wasn't even enough money to feed themselves, buy clothes or shoes for the children or books for school. It was the same in Grandpa Axel's family. At that time, they lived very modestly in two small attic rooms in an old inn in an Alpine village called Ainring.

The children there often spent their free time on farms, played there and, above all, the friendly farmers gave the refugee children, including little Axel, something to eat from time to time. Sometimes a lard sandwich, a cup of skimmed milk, an apple and every now and then little Axel could even take something home with him, to the delight of his mommy, as he called his mother at the time. For example, the farmer's wife, who was called "Wingeimama" by all the village children, would occasionally give him a sack of potatoes or a few carrots, a small jug of skimmed milk or something similar.

Of course, he didn't get whole milk, as we know it today and can buy it for little money in any supermarket, because it was used to make butter on the farm, which was very expensive even back then. The little, fat farmer's wife with her long, black plait of hair carefully wrapped around her broad head was called Wingeimama by all the village children because she lived on the Wingeihof farm and was as loving as a mother to all the village children.

One day, little Axel once again sneaked into his mother's cow shed. He wasn't actually allowed to do that. But it was no different back then than it is today: everything you're not allowed to do is particularly appealing. And cows in particular, with their beautiful, gentle eyes, their calm charisma, their occasional extended "moohhh", really appealed to little Axel, he could watch them for hours and play his secret mind games with them.