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Updated: June 16, 2025
"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.
If you had done right at once, and trusted in God, all would have gone well at first. Now the dear Lord has helped you beyond all you deserved, so that you will not forget it your whole life long." "No, I will surely never forget it," said Moni, eagerly assenting, "and will always truly think, the first thing: I must only do what is right before the dear Lord. He will take care of all the rest."
At first he couldn't speak a word; but now he broke out and complained aloud over the little kid: "No, no, that shall not be done, Maggerli, it shall not be done. They shall not slay you, I can't bear that. Oh, I would rather die with you; no, that cannot be!" "Don't do so," said Jorgli, angrily, and pulled Moni up, for in his grief he had thrown himself face down on the ground.
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."
She took him aside, sat down on the trunk of a tree, beside him, and said with the greatest friendliness: "Come, tell me all about how it happened, Moni, for I want so much to know everything from you."
Now the clouds scattered and the lovely light blue sky looked down so cheerfully that it seemed to Moni as if the dear Lord were looking out of the bright blue at him, and suddenly it became quite clear in his heart what he ought to do. He could not carry the wrong around with him any more; he must throw it off.
Suddenly Moni raised his voice again and sang until the mountains echoed: "To-day he must sing his whole song for me once," said Paula, for Moni had now disappeared and she could no longer understand the words of his distant song. In the sky the rosy morning clouds were disappearing and a cool mountain breeze rustled around Moni's ears, as he climbed up. This he thought just right.
"See, I will show you what it is, and I will sell it to a maid in one of the hotels, but she will surely have to give me four francs; then I will give you one or two, and nobody will know anything about it." "I will not take it! I will not take it!" interrupted Moni, hotly, "and the dear Lord has heard everything you have said."
"I didn't suppose you came up so high with the goats," said Jorgli. "To be sure I do," replied Moni, "but not always; usually I stay by the Pulpit-rock and around there. Why have you come up here?" "To make you a visit," was the reply. "I have something to tell you. Besides, I have two goats here, that I am bringing to the landlord at the Baths.
The shiny Blackie, the goat belonging to the landlord of the Bath House, Maggerli's mother, was a little proud; she came only to within a few steps of Moni, looked at him with her head lifted, as if she wouldn't appear too familiar, and then went her way again.
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