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Updated: June 7, 2025
Now that they had escaped the perils of the forest, it almost seemed to them for a little while as if their troubles were over, but by and by Seppi sat up and studied the scene before them. He looked past the long slopes to the glacier and the river in the valley below.
"Then we must wish for wings on the goats too," said Seppi, "for you know Father said we must take care of them whatever happens." Sad and frightened though she was, Leneli giggled a little at that. "Wouldn't they look funny flying through the air with you and me and Bello all flopping after them?" she said.
They were "groping around," and did not know what true, sorrowfully true things they were saying by accident. Seppi asked if Nikolaus might go out with us. "I am sorry," she answered, "but he can't. To punish him further, his father doesn't allow him to go out of the house to-day." We had a great hope! I saw it in Seppi's eyes. We thought, "If he cannot leave the house, he cannot be drowned."
"Come along," he shouted, waving his hand frantically toward the path, and Leneli at once called Bello, and together they started the goats. "The avalanche must have begun on the other side of our pass," said Seppi when Leneli caught up with him. "There's no sign of it on this side." "Maybe if we follow far enough we'll find Father and Fritz," said Leneli, brightening.
Suppose we get across all right with all the goats, and suppose there's a good woman at the farm-house who feeds us, and Bello too! Suppose she gives us... what would you like best for supper, Leneli?" "Oh!" cried Leneli, clasping her hands, "soup and pancakes!" "Hurry up, then," said Seppi. "We shall surely never get them, nor anything else, by staying here."
He had felt his blood leap and his spirits rise in a way that could mean only one thing, and he knew Satan was near, although it was too dark to see him. He came to us, and we walked along together, and Seppi poured out his gladness like water. It was as if he were a lover and had found his sweetheart who had been lost.
Seppi asked, to make sure: "Must he stay in all day, or only the morning?" "All day. It's such a pity, too; it's a beautiful day, and he is so unused to being shut up. But he is busy planning his party, and maybe that is company for him. I do hope he isn't too lonesome." Seppi saw that in her eye which emboldened him to ask if we might go up and help him pass his time.
"Pooh! no," Seppi answered loftily. "There's lots more to it than this, though this is the best part of it, of course. Why, there are oceans bigger than Lake Lucerne and a mile deep, and there's Paris and London besides." "Dear, dear," said Leneli.
With more diligence than hope, in fact, for it was not a promising case. He had many interviews in his office with Seppi and me, and threshed out our testimony pretty thoroughly, thinking to find some valuable grains among the chaff, but the harvest was poor, of course. If Satan would only come! That was my constant thought.
Then Seppi asked him what his own name was, and he said, tranquilly, "Satan," and held out a chip and caught a little woman on it who was falling from the scaffolding and put her back where she belonged, and said, "She is an idiot to step backward like that and not notice what she is about."
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