Mats Traat
Tallinn : Eesti Raamat, 1974
192 p
Hardcover used ex-library book in good condition.
What does Pommer do? What else does he have to do than what he has been doing for years. Last fall, he turned thirty-seven, when he moved from Löövi rural municipality here to Jaagusilla, put the cow his father had given him in the barn, washed his hands clean at the well and went to class to teach spelling to the farmers' children. At that time, Pommer was a young noble schoolmaster who subconsciously guessed that only with clean hands can one teach beautiful, fluent and proper spelling. And also the spelling of the native language. He, who had gone with enthusiasm to cultivate the educational field of the fatherland, that eternal pasture, where the plowman must have a ram of ten oxen. He still does the same thing - carries his cross and shapes the souls of children, as the curriculum and Christian education require.