1808 short stories

thumb|Illustration by Rudolf Geißler for the magazine Münchener Bilderbogen, 1895: The craftsman boy meets the funeral procession of Mr Kannitverstan Kannitverstan is a short story by the German author Johann Peter Hebel, which first appeared as a calendar story in 1808 in Rheinländischer Hausfreund (Rhenish family friend). It tells of a craftsman who, as a result of a misunderstanding, comes to realise the transience of earthly things and thus regains his contentment.