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Updated: May 29, 2025
There stood the two younger boys, Michael and Uli, with great hoes on their shoulders, and Stoeffi beside a cart which had to be taken along. They waited for their father, and then all went out to the field. Here Stoeffi and Sami had to rake together the grass, which the father cut, and load it on the cart, and bring home to the cows. Michael and Uli had to hoe the weeds in the next field near by.
This firmness was the result of Sami's sure conviction that the dear Lord heard and knew everything and that lying was something wicked, which did not please Him. So Stoeffi had to find some other way to get off from his work early and make Sami finish what he left.
They would find a smaller hoe at home for Sami to take with him in the afternoon, for pulling up the weeds was too slow work. After the boys had worked several hours in the afternoon, they sat down in the shade of an old apple-tree to eat their luncheon, and the piece of black bread with pear juice tasted very good after the hot work. "Have you ever seen a bear?" asked Stoeffi of Sami.
"You are nothing but a ragamuffin. We will force you." "You cannot," said Sami, "and you are no good either! If you were God-fearing, you would not want to lie so." "Well, well," they all screamed together, and shaking their fists in the most threatening way. "You needn't say that. We are just exactly as God-fearing as you, and even much more so!" Suddenly a new thought came to Stoeffi.
Do you hear it?" cried Sami in his delight. "Now he is calling again: 'Trust! Trust! Trust! Trust! And then they all sing together: 'Only trust the dear Lord!" "You are just talking nonsense!" exclaimed Stoeffi to the happy Sami. "The bird is more knowing than you are. That is the rain bird; I know him well. He notices the rain-wind and is calling: 'Shower! Shower!
Then there would always be three or four evenings in succession when Stoeffi wanted to go away early; then the brothers had to stay and work, and this led to many a quarrel, with heavy blows which regularly fell upon Sami. So he never had any happy days.
Shower! Then we know it is going to rain." But Sami would not give up what was so dear to him and kept saying to himself: "But he is singing: 'Trust! Trust! Trust! Trust!" "Keep quiet!" continued Stoeffi sharply to him. "You are nothing but a little tramp, who can't do anything and doesn't know anything and twists everything he hears."
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