Lunch with the Old Lady

(1993 July, Rueping memoir)
Mrs. Frederick (Old Lady) Rueping lived on Division Street (I think) in Fond du Lac, not far from the high school, and when she heard I was taking German, she insisted I take dinner with her every noon, where nichts but Deutch would be spoken every noon.  So I went, but I am afraid I did not learn much.  Around the table was Mrs. F. R. and Irene and her half-witted brother Art, all speaking Deutch.  I too had to say, Bitte gibst mir die Buetter or Kartoffel or whatever.  The maid came out at the stroke of the bell and cleared off and brot in the pie.  I think we did say a short German prayer first.  Then, after dinner, Irene and I and my German grammar went into the parlor where she skimmed thru my grammar lesson and I read and did some too.