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Poor Lalotte, meantime, having caught a glimpse of her uncle's tall, manly figure through the crowd, had pressed near enough to hear the alarming dialogue in which he had been engaged with the German soldiers. While, pale with terror, she stood listening with breathless attention, she recognised Philip at no great distance, with little Henric in his arms, among the spectators.
Henric and Lewis, two lovely boys of five and six years old, having promised to be very good, if allowed to sit up till their father's return, were watching their mother, who was employed in roasting a fine fat quail which their cousin, Lalotte, who had arrived at the discreet age of fourteen, was basting, and spinning the string by which it was suspended before the fire.
"Behold, my beloved," said Tell, "how well I have sped in the chase! These skins will bring in a mine of wealth against the winter season. To-morrow is Altdorf fair and I shall go thither to sell them." "Hurrah!" shouted Philip. "Is Altdorf fair to-morrow? Oh, my faith, I had forgotten it. Well, I shall go thither, and have some fun." "And I mean to go too, cousin Philip," said Henric.
Philip has run off to Altdorf fair, and taken Henric with him!" "My dear Lalotte," said her aunt, "you must put on your hood and sabots, and run after them. Perhaps, as you are light-footed, you can overtake them, and bring Henric back. I am sure, some mischief will befall him." Lalotte hastily threw her gray serge cloak about her, and drew the hood over her head.
"Mother," said Henric, "if my father does not come home very soon, that quail will be done too much." "What then?" asked Lalotte. "I was thinking, cousin Lalotte, that it would be a pity for it to be spoiled, after you and mother have taken so much pains in cooking it; and it smells so very good."
"But what will mother say?" asked Henric. "We won't let her know anything about it," said Philip. "But Lalotte won't let us go; for Lalotte is very cross, and wants to master me." "A fig for Lalotte!" cried the rude Philip; "do you think I care for her?" "I won't care for Lalotte when I grow a great big boy like you, cousin Philip; but she makes me mind her now," said Henric.
Philip, by the way, after expressing much contrition for having seduced little Henric to go to the fair with him, informed his uncle that Henric and Lalotte had been safely conducted home by one of the band of the Rutli who chanced to be at Altdorf fair.
So they carried out his orders, but he has stopped away until the present day, for he was not the Christ. vi. Henric. i. 57. And Simon also, the Samaritan magician, endeavoured to steal away certain by his magic. And at that time he succeeded in deceiving them, but in our own day I do not think it possible to find thirty Simonians altogether in the inhabited world.
"But I won't be a good boy, if you leave me at home," muttered the little rebel. "Then you must be whipped, sir," said his father; "for we love you too well to permit you to be naughty without punishing you." On hearing this, Henric began to weep with anger. So his father told Lalotte to put him to bed without his supper.
I don't care about cakes," cried Henric. "I want to go to Altdorf fair to-morrow." "And you shall go to Altdorf fair," said Philip. "But how can I go, when father says he won't take me?" sobbed Henric. "There, dry your eyes, and go to sleep," whispered Philip; "as soon as my uncle is gone I will take you to the fair with me; for I mean to go, in spite of all he has said to the contrary."
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