The Little Barefoot by Berthold Auerbach

Farmer Rodel's house was once more full of life. "Barefoot," for so they continued to call Amrie, was helpful everywhere, and soon made herself beloved by all in the family. She could tell the young wife, who was a stranger in the village, what had been the customs of the house, and taught her to conform to the peculiarities of her nearest relatives. She knew how to render little services to the old farmer, who grumbled all day, and could not forgive himself, for having so early given up the farm. She represented to him, how much better his daughter-in-law really was, than she knew how to show; and then, when scarcely at the end of a year, the first child came, Amrie showed so much joy, and so much cleverness, in every emergency, that all in the house were full of her praise; but, after the manner of people, who are always more ready to find fault, with the smallest mistake, than to give praise for goodness.

But Amrie expected nothing, and she knew so well when to take the child to its grandfather, and when to take it away again, that he should have only pleasure therein. When she took it to show him its first tooth, the old farmer said, --