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Updated: July 5, 2025
Ondrejko became more quiet and thoughtful. He liked the talks with Palko very much. He believed everything, even that the Lord Jesus is constantly present. Therefore it is necessary to be always washed and clean and dressed decently, and also that it is necessary to give one's heart to the Lord Jesus when He wants it, and that He takes the heart and cleanses it.
Palko jumped up at once and sat down again. "But how is it that they are not together, and that Ondrejko is not with them?" "They had parted, and he took another wife many years ago." "And the Lord Jesus permitted that? It seems to me that He said, 'It should not be so." "You know, Palko, the world does many things that the Lord God forbids even this.
She was a young, beautiful woman, a widow. With her came a son from her first marriage. We called him Stephen, and when I look at you, Ondrejko, I always have him before me as he entered our hut for the first time. On his head he had a hat with a long band, a cloak thrown over his shoulder, an embroidered shirt, and narrow trousers. He was like a picture of a saint so beautiful and so lovely.
Soon it was known at all three sheepfolds that Madame Slavkovsky had bought Lord Gemer's estate and that she would deed it to Ondrejko if Lord Gemer would give up her son to her. No one doubted that he would do this, and since the present manager gave notice to leave, because he had been called to manage a different estate, the lady hoped that she would find some other responsible man.
In the whole wide world there were no comrades who loved each other better than Petrik, Ondrejko, and Fido. All three were orphans and had had a hard time in the world thus far. Both parents of Petrik had died of a malignant fever.
"Verily it is time that you go," agreed Bacha, "and go together." Ondrejko obeyed very gladly. Merrily the boys went into the woods and soon found the flowers they wanted. "Let us sit down a while," said Palko when they had picked the flowers and placed them in the nearby spring. "I would like to tell you something. Do you remember anything about your mother?"
Ondrejko finally asked, and looked at the same time in such a way at Bacha that he would have to be a very hard man to refuse. Disturbed from his meditation, Bacha looked for a while into the beautiful inquiring eyes, then with a deep breath he began: "Many years ago I was a boy like you two.
"There is the ringing of the bells of our sheep," smiled the happy Ondrejko. He ran quickly to the bench, intending to sit upon it and rest, but he did not do so for it was occupied by someone like one of the fairies from the woods of which Stephen often told him, that on St. John's Night came out of the "Old Hag's Rock" and danced on the meadows.
He asked them what they were doing and where they were from. They told him that they had accompanied the doctor that far. Ondrejko dared to ask him if he lived in that little house. "The hut belongs to us, but I am from Trenchin. I came only a week ago with my father. A distant uncle of my mother died, and because there is no nearer relative my mother inherited this hut.
The servants brought a folding-chair for the lady, since the doctor ordered her to rest in the shadow of the horse-chestnuts. She watched the play of the boys and took pleasure in their joy. Ondrejko left his comrades once in a while, ran to her, laid his curly head beside hers, kissed his mother, and on receiving her kiss, ran again with a loud "hallo" after his ball.
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