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Updated: June 2, 2025
"But what are you now, Jorgli, if you are no longer goat-boy?" began Moni. "You must be something." "Surely I am something, and something very good," replied Jorgli, "I am egg-boy. Every day I carry eggs to all the hotels, as far as I can go; I come up here to the Bath House, too. Yesterday I was there." Moni shook his head. "That's nothing.
When he sat down again, Jorgli said: "There is another way to keep the young goats from falling over the rocks, without having to be always jumping after them, as you do." "What is it?" asked Moni. "Drive a stick firmly into the ground and fasten the goat by the leg to it; she will kick furiously, but she can't get away."
Moni thought over what he had promised Jorgli, and it seemed to him that if Jorgli had taken something, he was practically doing the same thing himself, because Jorgli had promised to give him something or do something for him. He had surely done what was wrong, and the dear Lord was now against him.
Jorgli looked up to the sky: "Oh, so far away," he said skeptically; but he immediately began to speak more softly. "He hears you still," said Moni, confidently. It was no longer Jorgli's secret. If he didn't know how to bring Moni to his side, all would be lost. He thought and thought.
When Jorgli had gone some distance down the mountain, Moni also started along with his flock, but he was very still and neither sang a note nor whistled, all the way home. On the following morning Moni came up the path to the Bath House, just as silent and cast down as the evening before.
"Down by the Bath House, yesterday evening." "Then some one from the house below lost it. You must tell the landlord, and if you don't, I will do it this evening." "No, no, Moni, don't do that," said Jorgli, beseechingly.
When he reached home, he only put his goats in, told his grandmother he had an errand to do, and ran at once down to Kublis. He found Jorgli at home and told him without delay what he had done. At first the boy was very angry, but when he considered that all was known, he took out the cross and asked: "Will she give me anything for it?"
See, up there hangs a very sharp willow rod for such cases. Now go and think this over." Moreover, the event had other consequences for the boy. From this time on, if anything was lost anywhere in the Bath House, all the servants immediately exclaimed: "Jorgli from Kublis has it!" and if he came afterwards into the house they all pounced on him together and cried: "Give it here, Jorgli!
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