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Updated: May 27, 2025
Fra Mino lay groaning on the Chapel flags; for so fierce had been the desire of sin within him that now he was filled full of bitter shame at his own weakness. Suddenly one of the nymphs, chancing as she lay to turn her eyes upon him, cried out: "A man! a man!" And pointing him out to her companions: "Look, sisters; yonder is no goat-herd, he has no flute of reed beside him.
"Amanda seems to like that dark boy, Poff; what is his name? Sir Philip Easton?" said Lady Marayne. Benham looked at her with a slightly hostile intelligence, and said nothing. "When a man takes a wife, he has to keep her," said Lady Marayne. "No," said Benham after consideration. "I don't intend to be a wife-herd." "What?" "Wife-herd same as goat-herd."
This chance acquaintance is an Eliaute goat-herd, whom I unwittingly scared nearly out of his senses, and whose gratitude at finding himself confronting a kindly-disposed human being instead of some supernatural agent of destruction, is very great indeed. He was slumbering at his post, this gentle guardian of a herd of goats, stretched at full length on the ground.
He laughed heartily when we told him that we had had great hopes that the rough-looking stranger might turn out to be Robinson Crusoe himself, gone back to live on his own island. He exchanged a few words with the stranger. "The man tells me that he is a goat-herd a convict unjustly banished here; that of course. He begs that we will give him a few coppers to buy a glass of rum."
He hesitated a moment, for he could not believe that Heidi was in earnest; but the latter kept on holding out the bread and cheese, and as Peter still did not take it, she laid it down on his knees. He saw then that she really meant it; he seized the food, nodded his thanks and acceptance of her present, and then made a more splendid meal than he had known ever since he was a goat-herd.
He lay awake night after night up in the loft, listening to the talk about him going on in the room below the good-wife crying and saying: "No, no!", the others saying how hard the times were, and that Peer was quite old enough now to be put to service as a goat-herd on some up-country farm. Then Peer would draw the skin-rug up over his head.
In the morning a rich Brahman found him and took him home, and as no one claimed the child he brought him up and made him his goat-herd, and they gave him the name of Lela. The Brahman's sons and daughters used to go school, and before he took his goats out to graze Lela used to carry their books to the school.
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