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Updated: October 5, 2025
"Yes, but you have not yet Babette!" said the miller as he struck the young chamois hunter, jestingly on the shoulder. "Do you know the latest news in the mill?" said the parlour-cat to the kitchen-cat. "Rudy has brought us the young eagle and taken Babette in exchange. They have kissed each other and the father looked on.
He who was in the wrong, and who ought to ask her forgiveness; for did she not love him with her whole heart? "What strange creatures human beings are," said the parlor-cat to the kitchen-cat; "Babette and Rudy have fallen out with each other. She sits and cries, and he thinks no more about her." "That does not please me to hear," said the kitchen-cat.
"But what was said?" asked the kitchen-cat. "Said? Everything. 'I care for her and she cares for me! When there is milk enough in the jug for one, there is milk enough in the jug for two! 'But she is placed too high for you, said the miller, 'she sits on gold dust, so now you know it; you can not reach her! 'Nothing is too high; he who wills can reach anything! said Rudy.
"And now Rudy is gone, and Babette sits and weeps, while the miller sings German songs that he learnt on his journey; but I do not trouble myself on the matter, it would be of no use." "Yet, for all that, it is a very strange affair," said the kitchen-cat. From the mountain-path came a joyous sound of some person whistling, and it betokened good humor and undaunted courage.
"Do you know the latest news at the mill?" said the parlour-cat, "there has been a silent betrothal in the house! Father does not yet know it, but Rudy and Babette have reached each other their paws under the table, and he trod three times on my fore-paws, but still I did not mew, for that would have awakened attention!" "I should have done it, nevertheless!" said the kitchen-cat.
Her godmother's nephew was a fop: she intended to burn the book which he had given her, so that not the slightest thing should remain to remind her of him. "Well, that quarrel is all over," said the kitchen-cat. "Rudy is come back, and they are friends again, which they say is the greatest of all pleasures."
"I heard the rats say one night," said the kitchen-cat, "that the greatest pleasure in the world was to eat tallow candles and to feast on rancid bacon. Which are we to believe, the rats or the lovers?" "Neither of them," said the parlor-cat; "it is always the safest plan to believe nothing you hear." The greatest happiness was coming for Rudy and Babette.
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