[17] This is a chapter out of Rosegger's _Heidepeter's Gabriel_: a book
which is largely autobiographical--Heidepeter being undoubtedly the
author's father--and which gives a picture of the small peasant
community in a poor mountain district called, from its bare and lonely
character, the Wilderness.
[18] Heide-Peter means literally Moor-Peter, or Peter of the Moor.
[19] _Dalkerd_: a South German word, evidently meaning milksop.