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Updated: June 13, 2025
Although this valley is not as high, by far, as the valley of Gschaid and so much warmer that they could begin harvesting two weeks earlier than in Gschaid, the ground was frozen here too; and when the children had come to the tannery and the fulling-mill of their grandfather, pretty little cakes of ice were lying on the road where it was frequently spattered by drops from the wheels.
This is customary in Gschaid as the people are hardy pedestrians, and because parents especially a man like the shoemaker like to see their children able to take care of themselves.
And because we cannot look down into our valley, anyway, we want to go down from the mountain in a straight line. We must come into some valley, and there we shall tell people that we are from Gschaid and they will show us the way home." "Yes, Conrad," said the girl. So they began to descend on the snow in the direction which its slope offered them. The boy led the little girl by her hand.
The Sideralp chalet is not so very far from Gschaid, from whose windows one can, in summer time, very well see the green pasture on which stands the gray hut with its small belfry; but below it there is a perpendicular wall with a descent of many fathoms which one could climb in summer, with the help of climbing-irons, but which was not to be scaled in winter.
Only from this day on the children were really felt to belong to the village and were not any longer regarded as strangers in it but as natives whom the people had fetched down to them from the mountain. Their mother Sanna also now was a native of Gschaid.
Those who still were on the mountain and had only learned through the smoke that the signal for returning had been given, gradually also found their way into the valley. The last to appear in the evening was the son of the shepherd Philip who had carried the red flag to the Krebsstein and planted it there. In Gschaid there was also grandmother waiting for them who had driven across the "neck."
There are no high boots because these are not worn in the village and its surroundings; only two personages own such boots, the priest and the schoolteacher, both of whom have their new work and repairing done by the shoemaker. In winter, old Tobias sits in his cot behind the elder-bushes and has it comfortably warm, because wood is not dear in Gschaid.
If there had been any wind the children would have perished." "Yes, let us thank God, let us thank God," said the shoemaker. The dyer who since the marriage of his daughter had never been in Gschaid decided to accompany the men to the village.
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