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Updated: June 7, 2025
It drove the mother wild with grief and shame, and she forsook her work and went daily about the town, cursing the carpenter and blaspheming the laws of the emperor and the church, and it was pitiful to see. Seppi asked Satan to interfere, but he said the carpenter and the rest were members of the human race and were acting quite neatly for that species of animal.
Then, though he followed them faithfully, he did not run about in circles and bark down every hollow log as he usually did. Instead, he walked along solemnly beside Leneli with his nose in her hand. "See, Seppi," she said, "he knows he must help with the goats, but he wants to go with Fritz." "There are lots of people in the world that know less than Bello," Seppi answered wisely.
"I know how," said Leneli proudly. "Don't you remember, Fritz taught me the day Nanni swallowed my lunch?" "I'll lend you a milk-pail," said the herdsman. "The cows were all milked some time ago." He went back to the but and soon reappeared with two pails, and as Leneli struggled with one goat he milked another, while Seppi fed both creatures with tufts of grass to keep them quiet.
We asked if we might make some people, and he said yes, and told Seppi to make some cannon for the walls, and told Nikolaus to make some halberdiers, with breastplates and greaves and helmets, and I was to make some cavalry, with horses, and in allotting these tasks he called us by our names, but did not say how he knew them.
She waved to them in return, and the baby also fluttered her tiny pink hand until they were quite out of sight. "We'll never forget her, shall we?" said Leneli. "Never," answered Seppi, fervently. "She's almost as good as Mother! And doesn't she make good pancakes, though?"
"Come away," said Seppi, half sobbing, "come quick we can't bear to meet her; in five minutes she will know." But we were not to escape. She came upon us at the foot of the stairs, with her cordials in her hands, and made us come in and sit down and take the medicine.
Again Seppi sounded his horn, his mother flung out her apron like a flag of victory, and all of them, including Roseli, waved their arms so joyously that there was no mistaking the message. With an answering shout the man dropped out of sight again behind the rock, and a few moments later they saw him running down the hill-side toward the village.
"There isn't any food for them, but they can have a good drink while we eat our lunch, and then we just must find that path." They sat down on a rock and Leneli opened the bundle of food which the old herdsman had given them. "Isn't it queer?" said she, as she handed Seppi a piece of cheese, "I'm not as scared as I was before that dreadful eagle came. Are you?"
"It looks very small. It looks a great deal smaller than it did at home," said Leneli. "I wonder why?" "You are hungrier now than you were then," said Fritz. "I could eat it all myself," said Seppi. "But you won't," laughed Fritz; "I'll see to that." He divided the bread and cheese into three equal portions and handed one to each of the Twins. The third he put in his own pocket.
For a moment they gave themselves up to the joy of reunion, then Seppi said proudly: "We brought the goats safely home, Mother. They are all in the shed." "I thought you had been swallowed up by the avalanche," sobbed their mother, clasping them again to her heart. "All the men of the village are now up the mountain-side searching for you and trying to break a fresh path to the goat-pastures.
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