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+MONI THE GOAT-BOY
+
+BY JOHANNA SPYRI
+
+Author Of "Heidi"
+
+TRANSLATED BY HELEN B. DOLE
+
+ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR BY CHARLES COPELAND
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "_In the midst of the flock came the goat-boy_."]
+
+
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+    CHAPTER
+
+      I. ALL IS WELL WITH MONI
+
+     II. MONI'S LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS
+
+    III. A VISIT
+
+     IV. MONI CAN NO LONGER SING
+
+      V. MONI SINGS AGAIN
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+    "In the midst of the flock came the goat-boy" _frontispiece_
+
+    "Moni climbed with his goats for an hour longer"
+
+    "Jorgli had opened his hand. In it lay a cross set with a large
+     number of stones"
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+ALL IS WELL WITH MONI
+
+
+It is a long, steep climb up to the Bath House at Fideris, after leaving
+the road leading up through the long valley of Prattigau. The horses
+pant so hard on their way up the mountain that you prefer to dismount
+and clamber up on foot to the green summit.
+
+After a long ascent, you come first to the village of Fideris, which
+lies on the pleasant green height, and from there you go on farther
+into the mountains, until the lonely buildings connected with the
+Baths appear, surrounded on all sides by rocky mountains. The only
+trees that grow up there are firs, covering the peaks and rocks, and
+it would all look very gloomy if the delicate mountain flowers with
+their brilliant coloring were not peeping forth everywhere through the
+low pasture grass.
+
+One clear summer evening two ladies stepped out of the Bath House and
+went along the narrow footpath, which begins to mount not far from the
+house and soon becomes very steep as it ascends to the high, towering
+crags. At the first projection they stood still and looked around, for
+this was the very first time they had come to the Baths.
+
+"It is not very lively up here, Aunt," said the younger, as she let her
+eyes wander around. "Nothing but rocks and fir woods, and then another
+mountain and more fir trees on it. If we are to stay here six weeks, I
+should like occasionally to see something more amusing."
+
+"It would not be very amusing, at all events, if you should lose your
+diamond cross up here, Paula," replied the aunt, as she tied together
+the red velvet ribbon from which hung the sparkling cross. "This is the
+third time I have fastened the ribbon since we arrived; I don't know
+whether it is your fault or the ribbon's, but I do know that you would
+be very sorry if it were lost."
+
+"No, no," exclaimed Paula, decidedly, "the cross must not be lost, on
+any account. It came from my grandmother and is my greatest treasure."
+
+Paula herself seized the ribbon, and tied two or three knots one after
+the other, to make it hold fast. Suddenly she pricked up her ears:
+"Listen, listen, Aunt, now something really lively is coming."
+
+A merry song sounded from far above them; then came a long, shrill
+yodel; then there was singing again.
+
+The ladies looked upwards, but could see no living thing. The footpath
+was very crooked, often passing between tall bushes and then between
+projecting slopes, so that from below one could see up only a very short
+distance. But now there suddenly appeared something alive on the slopes
+above, in every place where the narrow path could be seen, and louder
+and nearer sounded the singing.
+
+"See, see, Aunt, there! Here! See there! See there!" exclaimed Paula
+with great delight, and before the aunt was aware of it, three, four
+goats came bounding down, and more and more of them, each wearing around
+the neck a little bell so that the sound came from every direction. In
+the midst of the flock came the goat-boy leaping along, and singing his
+song to the very end:
+
+  "And in winter I am happy,
+  For weeping is in vain,
+  And, besides, the glad springtime
+  Will soon come again."
+
+
+Then he sounded a frightful yodel and immediately with his flock stood
+right before the ladies, for with his bare feet he leaped as nimbly and
+lightly as his little goats.
+
+"I wish you good evening!" he said as he looked gayly at the two ladies,
+and would have continued on his way. But the goat-boy with the merry
+eyes pleased the ladies.
+
+"Wait a minute," said Paula. "Are you the goat-boy of Fideris? Do the
+goats belong to the village below?"
+
+"Yes, to be sure!" was the reply.
+
+"Do you go up there with them every day?"
+
+"Yes, surely."
+
+"Is that so? and what is your name?"
+
+"Moni is my name--"
+
+"Will you sing me the song once more, that you have just sung? We heard
+only one verse."
+
+"It is too long," explained Moni; "it would be too late for the goats,
+they must go home." He straightened his weather-beaten cap, swung his
+rod in the air, and called to the goats which had already begun to
+nibble all around: "Home! Home!"
+
+"You will sing to me some other time, Moni, won't you?" called Paula
+after him.
+
+"Surely I will, and good night!" he called back, then trotted along with
+the goats, and in a short time the whole flock stood still below, a few
+steps from the Bath House by the rear building, for here Moni had to
+leave the goats belonging to the house, the beautiful white one and the
+black one with the pretty little kid. Moni treated the last with great
+care, for it was a delicate little creature and he loved it more than
+all the others. It was so attached to him that it ran after him
+continually all day long. He now led it very tenderly along and placed
+it in its shed; then he said:
+
+"There, Maggerli, now sleep well; are you tired? It is really a long
+way up there, and you are still so little. Now lie right down, so, in
+the nice straw!"
+
+After he had put Maggerli to bed in this way, he hurried along with his
+flock, first up to the hill in front of the Baths, and then down the
+road to the village.
+
+Here he took out his little horn and blew so vigorously into it, that it
+resounded far down into the valley. From all the scattered houses the
+children now came running out; each rushed upon his goat, which he knew
+a long way off; and from the houses near by, one woman and then another
+seized her little goat by the cord or the horn, and in a short time the
+entire flock was separated and each creature came to its own place.
+Finally Moni stood alone with the brown one, his own goat, and with her
+he now went to the little house on the side of the mountain, where his
+grandmother was waiting for him, in the doorway.
+
+"Has all gone well, Moni?" she asked pleasantly, and then led the brown
+goat to her shed, and immediately began to milk her. The grandmother was
+still a robust woman and cared for everything herself in the house and
+in the shed and everywhere kept order. Moni stood in the doorway of the
+shed and watched his grandmother. When the milking was ended, she went
+into the little house and said: "Come, Moni, you must be hungry."
+
+She had everything already prepared. Moni had only to sit down at the
+table; she seated herself next him, and although nothing stood on the
+table but the bowl of corn-meal mush cooked with the brown goat's milk,
+Moni hugely enjoyed his supper. Then he told his grandmother what he had
+done through the day, and as soon as the meal was ended he went to bed,
+for in the early dawn he would have to start forth again with the flock.
+
+In this way Moni had already spent two summers. He had been goat-boy so
+long and become so accustomed to this life and grown up together with
+his little charges that he could think of nothing else. Moni had lived
+with his grandmother ever since he could remember. His mother had died
+when he was still very little; his father soon after went with others to
+military service in Naples, in order to earn something, as he said, for
+he thought he could get more pay there.
+
+His wife's mother was also poor, but she took her daughter's deserted
+baby boy, little Solomon, home at once and shared what she had with him.
+He brought a blessing to her cottage and she had never suffered want.
+
+Good old Elizabeth was very popular with every one in the whole village,
+and when, two years before, another goat-boy had to be appointed, Moni
+was chosen with one accord, since every one was glad for the
+hard-working Elizabeth that now Moni would be able to earn something.
+The pious grandmother had never let Moni start away a single morning,
+without reminding him:
+
+"Moni, never forget how near you are up there to the dear Lord, and that
+He sees and hears everything, and you can hide nothing from His eyes.
+But never forget, either, that He is near to help you. So you have
+nothing to fear, and if you can call upon no human being up there, you
+have only to call to the dear Lord in your need, and He will hear you
+immediately and come to your aid."
+
+So from the very first Moni went full of trust up to the lonely
+mountains and the highest crags, and never had the slightest fear of
+dread, for he always thought:
+
+"The higher up, the nearer I am to the dear Lord, and so all the safer
+whatever may happen."
+
+So Moni had neither care nor trouble and could enjoy everything he did
+from morning till night. It was no wonder that he whistled and sang and
+yodeled continually, for he had to give vent to his great happiness.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+MONI'S LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS
+
+
+The following morning Paula awoke earlier than ever before; a loud
+singing had awakened her out of sleep.
+
+"That is surely the goat-boy so soon," she said, springing out of bed
+and running to the window.
+
+Quite right. With fresh, red cheeks there stood Moni below, and he had
+just brought the old goat and the little kid out of the goat shed. Now
+he swung his rod in the air, the goats leaped and sprang around him,
+and then he went along with the whole flock. Suddenly Moni raised his
+voice again and sang until the mountains echoed:
+
+  "Up yonder in the fir trees
+  Sing the birds in a choir,
+  And after the rain comes,
+  Comes the son like a fire."
+
+
+"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.
+
+[Illustration: "_Moni climbed with his goats for an hour longer_."]
+
+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. He yodeled with satisfaction from the first ledge so
+lustily down into the valley that many of the sleepers in the Bath House
+below opened their eyes in amazement, then closed them again at once,
+for they recognized the sound and knew that they could have an hour
+longer to sleep, since the goat-boy always came so early. Meanwhile Moni
+climbed with his goats for an hour longer, farther and farther up to the
+high cliffs above.
+
+The higher up he mounted, the broader and more beautiful became the
+view. From time to time he looked around him, then gazed up into the
+bright sky, which was becoming bluer and bluer, then began to sing with
+all his might, louder and louder and more merrily the higher he came:
+
+  "Up yonder in the fir trees,
+  Sing the birds in a choir,
+  And after the rain comes,
+  Comes the sun like a fire.
+
+  "And the sun and the stars
+  And the moon in the night,
+  The dear Lord has made them
+  To give us delight.
+
+  "In the spring there are flowers--
+  They are yellow and gold,
+  And so blue is the sky then
+  My joy can't be told.
+
+  "And in summer there are berries,
+  There are plenty if it's fine,
+  And the red ones and black ones,
+  I eat all from the vine.
+
+  "If there are nuts in the bushes
+  I know what to do.
+  Where the goats like to nibble,
+  There I can hunt too.
+
+  "And in winter I'm happy,
+  For weeping's in vain,
+  And, besides, the glad springtime
+  Will soon come again."
+
+
+Now the height was reached where he usually stayed, and where he was
+going to remain for a while to-day. It was a little green table-land,
+with so broad a projection that one could see from the top all round
+about and far, far down into the valley. This projection was called the
+Pulpit-rock, and here Moni could often stay for hours at a time, gazing
+about him and whistling away, while his little goats quite contentedly
+sought their feed around him.
+
+As soon as Moni arrived, he took his provision bag from his back, laid
+it in a little hole in the ground, which he had dug out for this
+purpose, then went to the Pulpit-rock and threw himself on the grass in
+order to enjoy himself fully.
+
+The sky had now become a deep blue; above were the high mountains with
+peaks towering to the sky and great ice-fields appearing, and far away
+down below the green valley shone in the morning light. Moni lay there,
+looking about, singing and whistling. The mountain wind cooled his warm
+face, and as soon as he stopped whistling, the birds piped all the more
+lustily and flew up into the blue sky. Moni was indescribably happy.
+From time to time Maggerli came to Moni and rubbed her head around on
+his shoulder, as she always did out of sheer affection. Then she bleated
+quite fondly, went to Moni's other side and rubbed her head on the other
+shoulder. The other goats also, first one and then another, came to look
+at their keeper and each had her own way of paying the visit.
+
+The brown one, his own goat, came very cautiously and looked at him to
+see if he was all right, then she would stand and gaze at him until he
+said: "Yes, yes, Braunli, it's all right, go and look for your fodder."
+
+The young white one and Swallow, so called because she was so small and
+nimble and darted everywhere, like swallows into their holes, always
+rushed together upon Moni, so that they would have thrown him down, if
+he had not already been stretched out on the ground, and then they
+immediately, darted off again.
+
+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. The big
+Sultan, the billy-goat, never showed himself but once, then he pushed
+away all he found near Moni, and bleated several times as significantly
+as if he had information to give about the condition of the flock, whose
+leader he felt himself to be.
+
+Little Maggerli alone never allowed herself to be crowded away from her
+protector; if the billy-goat came and tried to push her aside, she crept
+so far under Moni's arm or head that the big Sultan no longer came near
+her, and so under Moni's protection the little kid was not the least bit
+afraid of him. Otherwise she would have trembled if he came near her.
+
+Thus the sunny morning had passed; Moni had already taken his midday
+meal and now stood thinking as he leaned on his stick, which he often
+needed there, for it was very useful in climbing up and down. He was
+thinking whether he would go up to a new side of the rocks, for he
+wanted to go higher this afternoon with the goats, but the question was,
+to which side? He decided to take the left, for in that direction were
+the three Dragon-stones, around which grew such tender shrubs that it
+was a real feast for the goats.
+
+The way was steep, and there were dangerous places in the rugged wall of
+rock; but he knew a good path, and the goats were so sensible and did
+not easily go astray. He began to climb and all his goats gayly
+clambered after him, some in front, some behind him, little Maggerli
+always quite close to him; occasionally he held her fast and pulled her
+along with him, when he came to a very steep place.
+
+All went quite well and now they were at the top, and with high bounds
+the goats ran immediately to the green bushes, for they knew well the
+fine feed which they had often nibbled up here before.
+
+"Be quiet! Be quiet!" commanded Moni, "don't push each other to the
+steep places, for in a moment one of you might go down and have your
+legs broken. Swallow! Swallow! what are you thinking of?" he called
+full of excitement, up to the goat, for the nimble Swallow had climbed
+up to the high Dragon-stones and was now standing on the outermost edge
+of one of them and looking quite impertinently down on him. He climbed
+up quickly, for only a single step more and Swallow would be lying
+below at the foot of the precipice. Moni was very agile; in a few
+minutes he had climbed up on the crag, quickly seized Swallow by the
+leg, and pulled her down.
+
+"Now come with me, you foolish little beast, you," scolded Moni, as he
+dragged Swallow along with him to the others, and held her fast for a
+while, until she had taken a good bite of a shrub and thought no more of
+running away.
+
+"Where is Maggerli?" screamed Moni suddenly, as he noticed Blackie
+standing alone in a steep place, and not eating, but quietly looking
+around her. The little young kid was always near Moni, or running after
+its mother.
+
+"What have you done with your little kid, Blackie?" he called in alarm
+and sprang towards the goat. She seemed quite strange, was not eating,
+but stood still in the same spot and pricked up her ears inquiringly.
+Moni placed himself beside her and looked up and down. Now he heard a
+faint, pitiful bleating; it was Maggerli's voice, and it came from below
+so plaintive and beseeching. Moni lay down on the ground and leaned
+over. There below something was moving; now he saw quite plainly, far
+down Maggerli was hanging to the bough of a tree which grew out of the
+rock, and was moaning pitifully; she must have fallen over.
+
+Fortunately the bough had caught her, otherwise she would have fallen
+into the ravine and met a sorry death. Even now if she could no
+longer hold to the bough, she would fall into the depths and be
+dashed to pieces.
+
+In the greatest anguish he called down: "Hold fast, Maggerli, hold fast
+to the bough! See, I am coming to get you!" But how could he reach
+there? The wall of rock was so steep here, Moni saw very well that it
+would be impossible to go down that way. But the little goat must be
+down there somewhere near the Rain-rock, the overhanging stone under
+which good protection was to be found in rainy weather; the goat-boys
+had always spent rainy days there, therefore the stone had been called
+from old times the Rain-rock. From there, Moni thought he could climb
+across over the rocks and so bring back the little kid.
+
+He quickly whistled the flock together and went with them down to the
+place from which he could reach the Rain-rock. There he left them to
+graze and went to the rock. Here he immediately saw, just a little bit
+above him, the bough of the tree, and the kid hanging to it. He saw very
+well that it would not be an easy task to climb up there and then down
+again with Maggerli on his back, but there was no other way to rescue
+her. He also thought the dear Lord would surely stand by him, and then
+he could not possibly fail. He folded his hands, looked up to heaven and
+prayed: "Oh, dear Lord, help me, so that I can save Maggerli!"
+
+Then he was full of trust that all would go well, and he bravely
+clambered up the rock until he reached the bough above. Here he clung
+fast with both feet, lifted the trembling, moaning little creature to
+his shoulders, and then climbed with great caution back down again.
+When he had the firm earth under his feet once more and had saved the
+terror-stricken kid, he was so glad he had to offer thanks aloud and
+cried up to heaven:
+
+"Oh, dear Lord, I thank Thee a thousand times for having helped us so
+well! Oh, we are both so glad for it!" Then he sat down on the ground a
+little while, and stroked the kid, for she was still trembling in all
+her delicate limbs, and comforted her for enduring so much suffering.
+
+As it was soon time for departure, Moni placed the little goat on his
+shoulders again, and said anxiously:
+
+"Come, you poor Maggerli, you are still trembling; you cannot walk home
+to-day, I must carry you--" and so he carried the little creature,
+clinging close to him, all the way down.
+
+Paula was standing on the last rise in front of the Bath House,
+waiting for the goat-boy. Her aunt had accompanied her. When Moni came
+down with his burden on his back, Paula wanted to know if the kid was
+sick, and showed great interest. When Moni saw this, he at once sat
+down on the ground in front of Paula and told her his day's experience
+with Maggerli.
+
+The young lady showed very keen interest in the affair and stroked the
+little rescued creature, which now lay quietly in Moni's lap and looked
+very pretty, with its white feet, and the beautiful black pelt on its
+back. It was very willing to be stroked by her.
+
+"Now sing your song again for me, while you are sitting here," said
+Paula. Moni was in such a gay frame of mind that he willingly and
+heartily began and sang his whole song to the end.
+
+This pleased Paula exceptionally well and she said he must sing it to
+her often again. Then the whole company went together down to the Bath
+House. Here the kid was laid in its bed, Moni said farewell, and Paula
+went back to her room to talk with her aunt longer about the goat-boy,
+whose merry morning song she had enjoyed again.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+A VISIT
+
+
+Thus many days passed by, one as sunny and clear as the other, for it
+was an unusually beautiful summer, and the sky remained blue and
+cloudless from morning till evening.
+
+Every morning, early, without exception the goat-boy, singing lustily,
+went by the Bath House. Every evening he came back again singing
+lustily. All the guests were so accustomed to the merry sound that not
+one would have willingly missed it.
+
+More than all the others, Paula delighted in Moni's joyfulness and went
+out almost every evening to meet him, and talk with him.
+
+One sunny morning Moni had once more reached the Pulpit-rock, and was
+about to throw himself down, when he changed his mind. "No, go on! The
+last time you had to leave all the nice little plants because we had to
+go after Maggerli; now we will go up there again, so that you can finish
+nibbling them!"
+
+The goats all leaped with delight after him, for they knew they were
+going up to the lovely bushes on the Dragon-stones. To-day Moni held
+his little Maggerli the whole time fast in his arms, pulled the sweet
+plants himself from the rocks and let her eat out of his hand. This
+pleased the little goat best of all. She rubbed her head quite
+contentedly from time to time against Moni's shoulder and bleated
+happily. So the whole morning passed, before Moni noticed, from his own
+hunger, that it had grown late before he was aware of it. But he had
+left his luncheon below near the Pulpit-rock, in the little hole, for he
+had intended to return again at noon.
+
+"Well, you have had your fill of good things, and I have had nothing,"
+he said to his goats. "Now I must have something too, and you will find
+enough more down below. Come along!" Whereupon he gave a loud whistle,
+and the whole flock started away, the liveliest always ahead, and first
+of all light-footed Swallow, who was to meet something unexpected to-day.
+She sprang down from stone to stone and across many a cleft in the
+rocks, but all at once she could go no farther--directly in front of
+her suddenly stood a chamois and gazed with curiosity into her face.
+This had never happened to Swallow before! She stood still, looked
+questioningly at the stranger and waited for the chamois to get out of
+her way and let her leap to the boulder, as she intended. But the
+chamois did not stir and gazed boldly into Swallow's eyes. So they stood
+facing each other, more and more obstinate, and might have stood there
+until now, if the big Sultan had not come along in the meantime. As soon
+as he saw the state of things, he stepped quite considerately past
+Swallow and suddenly pushed the chamois aside so far and with such
+violence, that she had to make a daring leap, not to fall down over the
+rocks. Swallow went triumphantly on her way, and the Sultan marched
+proudly and contentedly behind her, for he felt himself to be the sure
+protector of the goats in his flock.
+
+Meanwhile Moni coming down from above, and another goat-boy coming up
+from below, met at the same spot and looked at each other in
+astonishment. But they were well acquainted, and after the first
+surprise greeted each other cordially. It was Jorgli from Kublis. Half
+the morning he had been looking in vain for Moni and now he met him up
+here, where he had not expected to find him.
+
+"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. He is going to buy one, and so I thought I would come up
+to see you."
+
+"Are they your own goats?" asked Moni.
+
+"Surely, they are ours. I don't tend strange ones any longer. I am not
+a goat-boy now."
+
+Moni was very much surprised at this, for Jorgli had become the goat-boy
+of Kublis at the same time he had been made goat-boy of Fideris, and
+Moni did not understand how Jorgli could give it up without a single
+murmur.
+
+Meanwhile the goat-boys and their flocks had reached the Pulpit-rock.
+Moni brought out bread and a small piece of dried meat and invited
+Jorgli to share his midday meal. They both sat down on the Pulpit-rock
+and ate heartily, for it had grown very late and they had excellent
+appetites. When everything was eaten and they had drunk a little goat's
+milk, Jorgli comfortably stretched himself at full length on the ground,
+and rested his head on both arms, but Moni remained sitting, for he
+always liked to look down into the deep valley below.
+
+"But what are you now, Jorgli, if you are no longer goat-boy?" began
+Moni. "You must be something."
+
+"Surely I am something, and something very good," replied Jorgli, "I am
+egg-boy. Every day I carry eggs to all the hotels, as far as I can go;
+I come up here to the Bath House, too. Yesterday I was there."
+
+Moni shook his head. "That's nothing. I wouldn't be an egg-boy; I would
+a thousand times rather be goat-boy, it is much finer."
+
+"But why?"
+
+"Eggs are not alive, you can't speak a word to them, and they don't run
+after you like the goats which are glad to see you when you come, and
+are fond of you, and understand every word you say to them; you can't
+have any pleasure with eggs as you can with the goats up here."
+
+"Yes, and you," interrupted Jorgli, "what great pleasure do you have up
+here? Just now you have had to get up six times while we were eating,
+just on account of that silly kid, to prevent it from falling down
+below--is that a pleasure?"
+
+"Yes, I like to do that! Isn't it so, Maggerli? Come! Come here!" Moni
+jumped up and ran after the kid, for it was making dangerous leaps for
+sheer joy. 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."
+
+"You needn't think I would do any such thing to the little kid!" said
+Moni quite angrily and drew Maggerli to him and held her fast, as if to
+protect her from any such treatment.
+
+"You really won't have to take care of that one much longer," began
+Jorgli again. "It won't come up here many times more."
+
+"What? What? What did you say, Jorgli?" demanded Moni.
+
+"Bah, don't you know about it? The landlord will not raise her, she is
+too weak; there never was a more feeble goat. He wanted to sell her to
+my father, but he wouldn't have her either; now the landlord is going to
+have her killed next week, and then he will buy our spotted one."
+
+Moni had become quite pale from terror. 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. "Stand up, you know
+the kid really belongs to the landlord and he can do what he likes with
+her. Think no more about it! Come, I know something. See! See!"
+Whereupon Jorgli held out one hand to Moni, and with the other almost
+covered the object, which Moni was to admire; it sparkled wonderfully in
+his hand, for the sun shone straight into it.
+
+"What is it?" asked Moni, when it sparkled again, lighted up by a sunbeam.
+
+"Guess!"
+
+"A ring?"
+
+"No, but something like that."
+
+"Who gave it to you?"
+
+"Gave it to me? Nobody. I found it myself."
+
+"Then it does not belong to you, Jorgli."
+
+"Why not? I didn't take it from anybody. I almost stepped on it with my
+foot, then it would have been broken; so I can just as well keep it."
+
+"Where did you find it?"
+
+"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. "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."
+
+[Illustration: "_Jorgli had opened his band. In it lay a cross set with
+a large number of stones_."]
+
+Jorgli looked up to the sky: "Oh, so far away," he said skeptically;
+but he immediately began to speak more softly.
+
+"He hears you still," said Moni, confidently.
+
+It was no longer Jorgli's secret. If he didn't know how to bring Moni to
+his side, all would be lost. He thought and thought.
+
+"Moni," he said suddenly, "I will promise you something that will
+delight you, if you will not say anything to a human being about what I
+have found; you really don't need to take anything for it, then you will
+have nothing to do with it. If you will do as I say, I will make my
+father buy Maggerli, so she will not be killed. Will you?"
+
+A hard struggle arose in Moni. It was wrong to help keep the discovery
+secret. Jorgli had opened his hand. In it lay a cross set with a large
+number of stones, which sparkled in many colors. Moni realized that it
+was not a worthless thing which no one would inquire about; he felt
+exactly as if he himself should be keeping what did not belong to him if
+he remained silent. But on the other hand was the little, affectionate
+Maggerli, that was going to be killed in a horrible way with a knife,
+and he could prevent it if he kept silent. Even now the little kid was
+lying so trustfully beside him, as if, she knew that he would always
+keep it; no, he could not let this happen, he must try to save it.
+
+"Yes, I will, Jorgli," he said, but without any enthusiasm.
+
+"Then it is a bargain!" and Jorgli offered his hand to Moni, that
+he might seal the argument, as that was the only way to make a
+promise binding.
+
+Jorgli was very glad that now his secret was safe; but as Moni had
+become so quiet, and he had much farther to go to reach home than
+Moni, he considered it well to start along with his two goats. He said
+good-night to Moni and whistled for his two companions, which meanwhile
+had joined Moni's grazing goats, but not without much pushing and other
+doubtful behavior between the two parties, for the goats from Fideris
+had never heard that they ought to be polite to visitors and the goats
+from Kublis did not know that they ought not to seek out the best plants
+or push the others away from them, when they were visiting. When Jorgli
+had gone some distance down the mountain, Moni also started along with
+his flock, but he was very still and neither sang a note nor whistled,
+all the way home.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+MONI CAN NO LONGER SING
+
+
+On the following morning Moni came up the path to the Bath House, just
+as silent and cast down as the evening before. He brought out the
+landlord's goats quietly and went on upwards, but he sang not a note,
+nor did he give a yodel up into the air; he let his head hang and looked
+as if he were afraid of something; now and then he looked around
+timidly, as if some one were coming after him to question him.
+
+Moni could no longer be merry; he didn't know himself exactly why. He
+wanted to be glad that he had saved Maggerli, and sing, but he couldn't
+express it. To-day the sky was covered with clouds, and Moni thought
+when the sun came out it would be different and he could be happy again.
+
+When he reached the top, it began to rain quite hard. He took refuge
+under the Rain-rock, for it soon poured in streams from the sky.
+
+The goats came, too, and placed themselves here and there under the
+rock. The aristocratic Blackie immediately wanted to protect her
+beautiful shiny coat and crept in under the rock before Moni did. She
+was now standing behind Moni and looking out from her comfortable
+corner into the pouring rain. Maggerli was standing in front of its
+protector under the projecting rock and gently rubbed its little head
+against his knee; then it looked up at him in surprise, because Moni
+did not say a word, and it was not accustomed to that. Moni sat
+thoughtfully, leaning on his staff, for in such weather he always kept
+it in his hand, to keep himself from slipping on the steep places,
+for on such days he wore shoes. Now, as he sat for hours under the
+Rain-rock, he had plenty of time for reflection.
+
+Moni thought over what he had promised Jorgli, and it seemed to him that
+if Jorgli had taken something, he was practically doing the same thing
+himself, because Jorgli had promised to give him something or do
+something for him. He had surely done what was wrong, and the dear Lord
+was now against him. This he felt in his heart, and it was right that it
+was dark and rainy and that he was hidden under the rock, for he would
+not even have dared look up into the blue sky, as usual.
+
+But there were still other things that Moni had to think about. If
+Maggerli should fall down over a steep precipice again, and he wanted
+to get it, the dear Lord would no longer protect him, and he no longer
+dared to pray to Him about it and call upon Him, and so had no more
+safety; and if then he should slip and fall down with Maggerli deep over
+the jagged, rocks, and both of them should lie all torn and maimed! Oh,
+no, he said with anguish in his heart, that must not happen anyway; he
+must manage to be able to pray again and come to the dear Lord with
+everything that weighed on his heart; then he could be happy again, that
+he felt sure of. Moni would throw off the weight that oppressed him, he
+would go and tell the landlord everything--But then? Then Jorgli would
+not persuade his father, and the landlord would slaughter Maggerli. Oh,
+no! Oh, no! he couldn't bear that, and he said: "No, I will not do it!
+I will say nothing!" But he did not feel satisfied, and the weight on
+his heart grew heavier and heavier. Thus Moni's whole day passed.
+
+He started home at evening as silent as he had come in the morning. When
+he found Paula standing near the Bath House, and she sprang quickly
+across to the goat-shed and asked sympathetically: "Moni, what is the
+matter? Why don't you sing any more?" he turned shyly away and said:
+
+"I can't," and as quickly as possible made off with his goats.
+
+Paula said to her aunt above: "If I only knew what was the matter with
+the goat-boy! He is quite changed. You wouldn't know him. If he would
+only sing again!"
+
+"It must be the frightful rain which has silenced the boy so!" remarked
+the aunt.
+
+"Everything all comes together; let us go home, Aunt," begged Paula,
+"there is no more pleasure here. First I lost my beautiful cross, and it
+can't be found; then comes this endless rain, and now we can't ever hear
+the merry goat-boy any more. Let us go away!"
+
+"The cure must be finished, or it will do no good," explained the aunt.
+
+It was also dark and gray on the following day, and the rain poured down
+without ceasing. Moni spent the day exactly like the one before. He sat
+under the rock and his thoughts went restlessly round in a circle, for
+when he decided: "Now, I will go and confess the wrong, so that I shall
+dare to look up to the dear Lord again," then he saw the little kid
+under the knife before him and it all began over again in his mind from
+the beginning; so that with thinking and brooding, and the weight he
+carried, he was very tired by night, and crept home in the streaming
+rain as if he didn't notice it at all.
+
+By the Bath House below the landlord was standing in the back doorway
+and called to Moni: "Come in with them. They are wet enough! Why, you
+are crawling down the mountain like a snail! I wonder what is the matter
+with you!"
+
+The landlord had never been so unfriendly before. On the contrary he
+had always made the most friendly remarks to the merry goat-boy. But
+Moni's changed appearance did not please him, and besides he was in a
+worse humor than usual because Fraulein Paula had just complained to him
+about her loss and assured him that the valuable cross could only have
+been lost in the house or directly in front of the house-door. She had
+only stepped out on that day towards evening, to hear the goat-boy sing
+on his way home. To have it said that it was possible for such a costly
+thing to be lost in his house, beyond recovery, made him very cross. The
+day before he had called together the whole staff of servants, examined
+and threatened them, and finally offered a reward to the finder. The
+whole house was in an uproar over the lost ornament.
+
+When Moni with his goats passed by the front of the house, Paula was
+standing there. She had been waiting for him, for she wondered very
+much whether he would ever sing any more or be merry. As he now crept
+by, she called:
+
+"Moni! Moni! Are you really the same goat-boy who used to sing from
+morning till night:
+
+  "'And so blue is the sky there
+  My joy can't be told'?"
+
+
+Moni heard the words very well; he gave no answer, but they made a great
+impression on him. Oh, how different it really was from the time when
+he could sing all day long and he felt exactly as he sang. Oh, if it
+could only be like that again!
+
+Again Moni climbed up the mountain, silent and sad and without singing.
+The rain had now ceased, but thick fog hung around on the mountains,
+and the sky was still full of dark clouds. Moni again sat under the
+rock and battled with his thoughts. About noon the sky began to clear;
+it grew brighter and brighter. Moni came out of his cave and looked
+around. The goats once more sprang gayly here and there, and the little
+kid was quite frolicsome from delight at the returning sun and made the
+merriest leaps.
+
+Moni stood on the Pulpit-rock and saw how it was growing brighter and
+more beautiful below in the valley and above over the mountains beyond.
+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. Then Moni seized the little kid, that
+was jumping about him, took it in his arms and said tenderly: "Oh,
+Maggerli, you poor Maggerli! I have certainly done what I could, but it
+is wrong, and that must not be done. Oh, if only you didn't have to die!
+I can't bear it!"
+
+And Moni began to cry so hard, that he could no longer speak, and the
+kid bleated pitifully and crept far under his arm, as if it wanted to
+cling to him and be protected. Then Moni lifted the little goat on his
+shoulders, saying:
+
+"Come, Maggerli, I will carry you home once more to-day. Perhaps I can't
+carry you much longer."
+
+When the flock came down to the Bath House, Paula was again standing on
+the watch. Moni put the young goat with the black one in the shed, and
+instead of going on farther, he came toward the young lady and was going
+past her into the house. She stopped him.
+
+"Still no singing, Moni? Where are you going with such a troubled face?"
+
+"I have to tell about something," replied Moni, without lifting his eyes.
+
+"Tell about something? What is it? Can't I know?"
+
+"I must tell the landlord. Something has been found."
+
+"Found? What is it? I have lost something, a beautiful cross."
+
+"Yes, that is just what it is."
+
+"What do you say?" exclaimed Paula, in the greatest surprise. "Is it a
+cross with sparkling stones?"
+
+"Yes, exactly that."
+
+"What have you done with it, Moni? Give it to me. Did you find it?"
+
+"No, Jorgli from Kublis found it."
+
+Then Paula wanted to know who he was and where he lived, and to send
+some one to Kublis at once to get the cross.
+
+"I will go as fast as I can, and if he still has it I will bring it to
+you," said Moni.
+
+"If he still has it?" said Paula. "Why shouldn't he still have it? And
+how do you know all about it, Moni? When did he find it, and how did you
+hear about it?"
+
+Moni looked on the ground. He didn't dare say how it had all come
+about, and how he had helped to conceal the discovery until he could
+no longer bear it.
+
+But Paula was very kind to Moni. 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."
+
+Then Moni gained confidence and began to relate the whole story, and
+told her every word of his struggle about Maggerli and how he had lost
+all happiness and dared no longer look up to the dear Lord, and how
+to-day he couldn't bear it any longer.
+
+Then Paula talked with him very kindly and said he should have come
+immediately and told everything, and it was right that he had told her
+all now so frankly, and that he would not regret it. Then she said he
+could promise Jorgli ten francs, as soon as she had the cross in her
+hands again.
+
+"Ten francs!" repeated Moni, full of astonishment, for he knew how
+Jorgli would have sold it for much less. Then Moni rose and said he
+would go right away that very day to Kublis, and if he got the cross
+he would bring it with him early the next morning. He ran along and
+was once more able to leap and jump, for he had a much lighter heart
+and the heavy burden no longer weighed him down to the ground.
+
+When he reached home, he only put his goats in, told his grandmother he
+had an errand to do, and ran at once down to Kublis. He found Jorgli at
+home and told him without delay what he had done. At first the boy was
+very angry, but when he considered that all was known, he took out the
+cross and asked:
+
+"Will she give me anything for it?"
+
+"Yes, and now you can see, Jorgli," said Moni, indignantly, "how by
+being honorable you will receive ten francs, and by being deceitful
+only four: the ten francs you are going to have now."
+
+Jorgli was very much amazed. He regretted that he had not gone
+immediately with the cross to the Bath House, after he had picked it up
+in front of the door, for now he had not a clear conscience and it might
+have been so different! But now it was too late. He gave the cross to
+Moni, who hastened home with it, for it had already grown quite dark.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+MONI SINGS AGAIN
+
+
+Paula had given orders to be wakened early the next morning, for she
+wanted to be on the spot when the goat-boy came. She was anxious to deal
+with him herself. That evening she had held a long conversation with the
+landlord, and had then come out of his room quite happy; so she must
+have planned something delightful with him.
+
+When the goat-boy came along with his flock in the morning, Paula was
+already standing in front of the house, and she called out:
+
+"Moni, can't you sing even now?"
+
+He shook his head. "No, I can't. I am always wondering how much
+longer Maggerli will go with me. I never can sing any more as long as
+I live, and here is the cross." Whereupon he handed her a little
+package, for the grandmother had wrapped it carefully for him in
+three or four papers.
+
+Paula took out the cross from the wrappings and examined it closely. It
+really was her beautiful cross with the sparkling stones, and quite
+unharmed. "Well, Moni," she said now very kindly, "you have given me a
+great pleasure, for if it had not been for you, I might never have seen
+my cross again. Now, I am going to give you a pleasure. Go take Maggerli
+there out of the shed, she belongs to you now!"
+
+Moni stared at the young lady in astonishment, as if it were impossible
+to understand her words. At last he stammered: "But how--how can
+Maggerli be mine?"
+
+"How?" replied Paula, smiling. "See, last evening I bought her from
+the landlord and this morning I give her to you. Now can't you sing
+once more?"
+
+"Oh! Oh! Oh!" exclaimed Moni and ran like mad to the shed, led the
+little goat out, and took it in his arms. Then he leaped back and held
+out his hand to Paula and said over and over again:
+
+"I thank you a thousand, thousand times! May God reward you! If I could
+do something nice for you!"
+
+"Well, then try once more and let us see if you can sing again!"
+said Paula.
+
+Then Moni sang his song and went on up the mountain with the goats, and
+his jubilant tones rang down into the valley, so that there was no one
+in the whole Bath House who did not hear it and many an one turned over
+in his bed and said: "The goat-boy has good weather once more."
+
+All were glad to hear him sing again, for all had depended on the merry
+alarm, some in order to get up, others to sleep a while longer.
+
+When Moni, from the first summit, saw Paula still standing below in
+front of the house, he stepped as far out as possible and sang down
+at the top of his voice:
+
+  "And so blue is the sky there
+  My joy can't be told."
+
+
+The whole day long Moni shouted for joy, and all the goats caught his
+spirit and jumped and sprang around as if it were a great festival. The
+sun shone cheerfully down out of the blue sky, and after the great rain,
+all the little plants were so fresh, and the yellow and red flowers so
+bright, it seemed to Moni as if he had never seen the mountains and the
+valley and the whole world so beautiful before. He didn't let the little
+kid leave him the whole day; he pulled up the best plants for it and fed
+it, and said over and over again:
+
+"Maggerli, you dear Maggerli, you do not have to die. You are now mine
+and will come up to the pasture with me as long as we live." And with
+resounding singing and yodeling Moni came down again at evening and
+after he had led the black goat to her shed, he took the little kid in
+his arms, for it was now coming home with him. Maggerli did not look as
+if it would rather stay there, but pressed close to Moni and felt that
+it was under the best protection, for Moni had for a long time treated
+it better and more kindly than its own mother.
+
+But when Moni came near his grandmother's with Maggerli on his
+shoulders, she didn't know at all what to make of it, and although Moni
+called from a distance:
+
+"She belongs to me, Grandmother, she belongs to me!" she didn't
+understand for some time what he meant. But Moni couldn't explain to
+her yet; he ran to the shed, and there right next to Brownie, so that
+it wouldn't be afraid, he made Maggerli a fine, soft bed of fresh straw,
+and laid it down, saying:
+
+"There, Maggerli, now sleep well in your new home! You must always have
+this; every day I will make you a new bed!"
+
+Then Moni came back directly to his wondering grandmother, and while
+they sat together at their supper, he told her the whole story from the
+very beginning about his three days so full of trouble, and the happy
+ending to-day.
+
+The grandmother listened very quietly and attentively and when he came
+to the end, she said earnestly:
+
+"Moni, you must remember what has happened to you now, as long as you
+live! While you were having so great trouble with wrong-doing in order
+to help the little creature, the dear Lord had already found a way to
+help it and make you happy as soon as you would do what was right in His
+sight. 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."
+
+But before Moni could lie down to sleep, he had to look into the shed
+once more, to see if it were really possible that the little kid was
+lying out there and belonged to him.
+
+Jorgli received the ten francs according to the agreement, but he was
+not allowed to escape from the affair so easily as that. When he
+returned to the Bath House, he was brought to the landlord who took the
+boy by the collar, gave him a good shaking, and said threateningly:
+
+"Jorgli! Jorgli! Don't you try a second time to bring my whole house
+into bad repute! If anything like this happens a single time again, you
+will come out of my house in a way that will not please you! See, up
+there hangs a very sharp willow rod for such cases. Now go and think
+this over."
+
+Moreover, the event had other consequences for the boy. From this time
+on, if anything was lost anywhere in the Bath House, all the servants
+immediately exclaimed: "Jorgli from Kublis has it!" and if he came
+afterwards into the house they all pounced on him together and cried:
+"Give it here, Jorgli! Out with it!" And if he assured them he had
+nothing and knew nothing about it, they would all exclaim: "We know
+you already!" and "You can't fool us!"
+
+So Jorgli had to endure the most menacing attacks continually, and had
+hardly a moment's peace any more, for if he saw any one approaching him,
+he at once thought he was coming to ask if he had found this or that.
+So Jorgli was not at all happy; and a hundred times he thought: "If only
+I had given back that cross immediately! I will never in my whole life
+keep anything else that doesn't belong to me."
+
+But Moni never ceased singing and yodeling, the whole summer long, for
+there was hardly another human being in the world as happy as he was up
+there with his goats. Often, however, when he lay stretched out in his
+contentment on the Pulpit-rock, and gazed down into the sunny valley
+below, he had to think how he had sat that time with the heavy burden on
+his heart, under the Rain-rock, and all happiness was gone; and he would
+say again and again in his heart: "I know now what I will do, so that it
+will never happen again: I will do nothing that will prevent me from
+looking up gladly to heaven, because this is right to the dear Lord."
+
+But if it chanced that Moni became too long absorbed in his meditation,
+one or another of the goats would come along, gaze wonderingly at him
+and try to attract his attention by bleating, which oftentimes he did
+not hear for quite a while. Only when Maggerli came and called after him
+longingly, then he heard at once and came leaping to it immediately, for
+his affectionate little kid always remained Moni's dearest possession.
+
+
+
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+MONI THE GOAT-BOY
+
+BY JOHANNA SPYRI
+
+Author Of "Heidi"
+
+TRANSLATED BY HELEN B. DOLE
+
+ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR BY CHARLES COPELAND
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "_In the midst of the flock came the goat-boy_."]
+
+
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+    CHAPTER
+
+      I. ALL IS WELL WITH MONI
+
+     II. MONI'S LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS
+
+    III. A VISIT
+
+     IV. MONI CAN NO LONGER SING
+
+      V. MONI SINGS AGAIN
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+    "In the midst of the flock came the goat-boy" _frontispiece_
+
+    "Moni climbed with his goats for an hour longer"
+
+    "Jörgli had opened his hand. In it lay a cross set with a large
+     number of stones"
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+ALL IS WELL WITH MONI
+
+
+It is a long, steep climb up to the Bath House at Fideris, after leaving
+the road leading up through the long valley of Prättigau. The horses
+pant so hard on their way up the mountain that you prefer to dismount
+and clamber up on foot to the green summit.
+
+After a long ascent, you come first to the village of Fideris, which
+lies on the pleasant green height, and from there you go on farther
+into the mountains, until the lonely buildings connected with the
+Baths appear, surrounded on all sides by rocky mountains. The only
+trees that grow up there are firs, covering the peaks and rocks, and
+it would all look very gloomy if the delicate mountain flowers with
+their brilliant coloring were not peeping forth everywhere through the
+low pasture grass.
+
+One clear summer evening two ladies stepped out of the Bath House and
+went along the narrow footpath, which begins to mount not far from the
+house and soon becomes very steep as it ascends to the high, towering
+crags. At the first projection they stood still and looked around, for
+this was the very first time they had come to the Baths.
+
+"It is not very lively up here, Aunt," said the younger, as she let her
+eyes wander around. "Nothing but rocks and fir woods, and then another
+mountain and more fir trees on it. If we are to stay here six weeks, I
+should like occasionally to see something more amusing."
+
+"It would not be very amusing, at all events, if you should lose your
+diamond cross up here, Paula," replied the aunt, as she tied together
+the red velvet ribbon from which hung the sparkling cross. "This is the
+third time I have fastened the ribbon since we arrived; I don't know
+whether it is your fault or the ribbon's, but I do know that you would
+be very sorry if it were lost."
+
+"No, no," exclaimed Paula, decidedly, "the cross must not be lost, on
+any account. It came from my grandmother and is my greatest treasure."
+
+Paula herself seized the ribbon, and tied two or three knots one after
+the other, to make it hold fast. Suddenly she pricked up her ears:
+"Listen, listen, Aunt, now something really lively is coming."
+
+A merry song sounded from far above them; then came a long, shrill
+yodel; then there was singing again.
+
+The ladies looked upwards, but could see no living thing. The footpath
+was very crooked, often passing between tall bushes and then between
+projecting slopes, so that from below one could see up only a very short
+distance. But now there suddenly appeared something alive on the slopes
+above, in every place where the narrow path could be seen, and louder
+and nearer sounded the singing.
+
+"See, see, Aunt, there! Here! See there! See there!" exclaimed Paula
+with great delight, and before the aunt was aware of it, three, four
+goats came bounding down, and more and more of them, each wearing around
+the neck a little bell so that the sound came from every direction. In
+the midst of the flock came the goat-boy leaping along, and singing his
+song to the very end:
+
+  "And in winter I am happy,
+  For weeping is in vain,
+  And, besides, the glad springtime
+  Will soon come again."
+
+
+Then he sounded a frightful yodel and immediately with his flock stood
+right before the ladies, for with his bare feet he leaped as nimbly and
+lightly as his little goats.
+
+"I wish you good evening!" he said as he looked gayly at the two ladies,
+and would have continued on his way. But the goat-boy with the merry
+eyes pleased the ladies.
+
+"Wait a minute," said Paula. "Are you the goat-boy of Fideris? Do the
+goats belong to the village below?"
+
+"Yes, to be sure!" was the reply.
+
+"Do you go up there with them every day?"
+
+"Yes, surely."
+
+"Is that so? and what is your name?"
+
+"Moni is my name--"
+
+"Will you sing me the song once more, that you have just sung? We heard
+only one verse."
+
+"It is too long," explained Moni; "it would be too late for the goats,
+they must go home." He straightened his weather-beaten cap, swung his
+rod in the air, and called to the goats which had already begun to
+nibble all around: "Home! Home!"
+
+"You will sing to me some other time, Moni, won't you?" called Paula
+after him.
+
+"Surely I will, and good night!" he called back, then trotted along with
+the goats, and in a short time the whole flock stood still below, a few
+steps from the Bath House by the rear building, for here Moni had to
+leave the goats belonging to the house, the beautiful white one and the
+black one with the pretty little kid. Moni treated the last with great
+care, for it was a delicate little creature and he loved it more than
+all the others. It was so attached to him that it ran after him
+continually all day long. He now led it very tenderly along and placed
+it in its shed; then he said:
+
+"There, Mäggerli, now sleep well; are you tired? It is really a long
+way up there, and you are still so little. Now lie right down, so, in
+the nice straw!"
+
+After he had put Mäggerli to bed in this way, he hurried along with his
+flock, first up to the hill in front of the Baths, and then down the
+road to the village.
+
+Here he took out his little horn and blew so vigorously into it, that it
+resounded far down into the valley. From all the scattered houses the
+children now came running out; each rushed upon his goat, which he knew
+a long way off; and from the houses near by, one woman and then another
+seized her little goat by the cord or the horn, and in a short time the
+entire flock was separated and each creature came to its own place.
+Finally Moni stood alone with the brown one, his own goat, and with her
+he now went to the little house on the side of the mountain, where his
+grandmother was waiting for him, in the doorway.
+
+"Has all gone well, Moni?" she asked pleasantly, and then led the brown
+goat to her shed, and immediately began to milk her. The grandmother was
+still a robust woman and cared for everything herself in the house and
+in the shed and everywhere kept order. Moni stood in the doorway of the
+shed and watched his grandmother. When the milking was ended, she went
+into the little house and said: "Come, Moni, you must be hungry."
+
+She had everything already prepared. Moni had only to sit down at the
+table; she seated herself next him, and although nothing stood on the
+table but the bowl of corn-meal mush cooked with the brown goat's milk,
+Moni hugely enjoyed his supper. Then he told his grandmother what he had
+done through the day, and as soon as the meal was ended he went to bed,
+for in the early dawn he would have to start forth again with the flock.
+
+In this way Moni had already spent two summers. He had been goat-boy so
+long and become so accustomed to this life and grown up together with
+his little charges that he could think of nothing else. Moni had lived
+with his grandmother ever since he could remember. His mother had died
+when he was still very little; his father soon after went with others to
+military service in Naples, in order to earn something, as he said, for
+he thought he could get more pay there.
+
+His wife's mother was also poor, but she took her daughter's deserted
+baby boy, little Solomon, home at once and shared what she had with him.
+He brought a blessing to her cottage and she had never suffered want.
+
+Good old Elizabeth was very popular with every one in the whole village,
+and when, two years before, another goat-boy had to be appointed, Moni
+was chosen with one accord, since every one was glad for the
+hard-working Elizabeth that now Moni would be able to earn something.
+The pious grandmother had never let Moni start away a single morning,
+without reminding him:
+
+"Moni, never forget how near you are up there to the dear Lord, and that
+He sees and hears everything, and you can hide nothing from His eyes.
+But never forget, either, that He is near to help you. So you have
+nothing to fear, and if you can call upon no human being up there, you
+have only to call to the dear Lord in your need, and He will hear you
+immediately and come to your aid."
+
+So from the very first Moni went full of trust up to the lonely
+mountains and the highest crags, and never had the slightest fear of
+dread, for he always thought:
+
+"The higher up, the nearer I am to the dear Lord, and so all the safer
+whatever may happen."
+
+So Moni had neither care nor trouble and could enjoy everything he did
+from morning till night. It was no wonder that he whistled and sang and
+yodeled continually, for he had to give vent to his great happiness.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+MONI'S LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS
+
+
+The following morning Paula awoke earlier than ever before; a loud
+singing had awakened her out of sleep.
+
+"That is surely the goat-boy so soon," she said, springing out of bed
+and running to the window.
+
+Quite right. With fresh, red cheeks there stood Moni below, and he had
+just brought the old goat and the little kid out of the goat shed. Now
+he swung his rod in the air, the goats leaped and sprang around him,
+and then he went along with the whole flock. Suddenly Moni raised his
+voice again and sang until the mountains echoed:
+
+  "Up yonder in the fir trees
+  Sing the birds in a choir,
+  And after the rain comes,
+  Comes the son like a fire."
+
+
+"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.
+
+[Illustration: "_Moni climbed with his goats for an hour longer_."]
+
+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. He yodeled with satisfaction from the first ledge so
+lustily down into the valley that many of the sleepers in the Bath House
+below opened their eyes in amazement, then closed them again at once,
+for they recognized the sound and knew that they could have an hour
+longer to sleep, since the goat-boy always came so early. Meanwhile Moni
+climbed with his goats for an hour longer, farther and farther up to the
+high cliffs above.
+
+The higher up he mounted, the broader and more beautiful became the
+view. From time to time he looked around him, then gazed up into the
+bright sky, which was becoming bluer and bluer, then began to sing with
+all his might, louder and louder and more merrily the higher he came:
+
+  "Up yonder in the fir trees,
+  Sing the birds in a choir,
+  And after the rain comes,
+  Comes the sun like a fire.
+
+  "And the sun and the stars
+  And the moon in the night,
+  The dear Lord has made them
+  To give us delight.
+
+  "In the spring there are flowers--
+  They are yellow and gold,
+  And so blue is the sky then
+  My joy can't be told.
+
+  "And in summer there are berries,
+  There are plenty if it's fine,
+  And the red ones and black ones,
+  I eat all from the vine.
+
+  "If there are nuts in the bushes
+  I know what to do.
+  Where the goats like to nibble,
+  There I can hunt too.
+
+  "And in winter I'm happy,
+  For weeping's in vain,
+  And, besides, the glad springtime
+  Will soon come again."
+
+
+Now the height was reached where he usually stayed, and where he was
+going to remain for a while to-day. It was a little green table-land,
+with so broad a projection that one could see from the top all round
+about and far, far down into the valley. This projection was called the
+Pulpit-rock, and here Moni could often stay for hours at a time, gazing
+about him and whistling away, while his little goats quite contentedly
+sought their feed around him.
+
+As soon as Moni arrived, he took his provision bag from his back, laid
+it in a little hole in the ground, which he had dug out for this
+purpose, then went to the Pulpit-rock and threw himself on the grass in
+order to enjoy himself fully.
+
+The sky had now become a deep blue; above were the high mountains with
+peaks towering to the sky and great ice-fields appearing, and far away
+down below the green valley shone in the morning light. Moni lay there,
+looking about, singing and whistling. The mountain wind cooled his warm
+face, and as soon as he stopped whistling, the birds piped all the more
+lustily and flew up into the blue sky. Moni was indescribably happy.
+From time to time Mäggerli came to Moni and rubbed her head around on
+his shoulder, as she always did out of sheer affection. Then she bleated
+quite fondly, went to Moni's other side and rubbed her head on the other
+shoulder. The other goats also, first one and then another, came to look
+at their keeper and each had her own way of paying the visit.
+
+The brown one, his own goat, came very cautiously and looked at him to
+see if he was all right, then she would stand and gaze at him until he
+said: "Yes, yes, Braunli, it's all right, go and look for your fodder."
+
+The young white one and Swallow, so called because she was so small and
+nimble and darted everywhere, like swallows into their holes, always
+rushed together upon Moni, so that they would have thrown him down, if
+he had not already been stretched out on the ground, and then they
+immediately, darted off again.
+
+The shiny Blackie, the goat belonging to the landlord of the Bath
+House, Mäggerli'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. The big
+Sultan, the billy-goat, never showed himself but once, then he pushed
+away all he found near Moni, and bleated several times as significantly
+as if he had information to give about the condition of the flock, whose
+leader he felt himself to be.
+
+Little Mäggerli alone never allowed herself to be crowded away from her
+protector; if the billy-goat came and tried to push her aside, she crept
+so far under Moni's arm or head that the big Sultan no longer came near
+her, and so under Moni's protection the little kid was not the least bit
+afraid of him. Otherwise she would have trembled if he came near her.
+
+Thus the sunny morning had passed; Moni had already taken his midday
+meal and now stood thinking as he leaned on his stick, which he often
+needed there, for it was very useful in climbing up and down. He was
+thinking whether he would go up to a new side of the rocks, for he
+wanted to go higher this afternoon with the goats, but the question was,
+to which side? He decided to take the left, for in that direction were
+the three Dragon-stones, around which grew such tender shrubs that it
+was a real feast for the goats.
+
+The way was steep, and there were dangerous places in the rugged wall of
+rock; but he knew a good path, and the goats were so sensible and did
+not easily go astray. He began to climb and all his goats gayly
+clambered after him, some in front, some behind him, little Mäggerli
+always quite close to him; occasionally he held her fast and pulled her
+along with him, when he came to a very steep place.
+
+All went quite well and now they were at the top, and with high bounds
+the goats ran immediately to the green bushes, for they knew well the
+fine feed which they had often nibbled up here before.
+
+"Be quiet! Be quiet!" commanded Moni, "don't push each other to the
+steep places, for in a moment one of you might go down and have your
+legs broken. Swallow! Swallow! what are you thinking of?" he called
+full of excitement, up to the goat, for the nimble Swallow had climbed
+up to the high Dragon-stones and was now standing on the outermost edge
+of one of them and looking quite impertinently down on him. He climbed
+up quickly, for only a single step more and Swallow would be lying
+below at the foot of the precipice. Moni was very agile; in a few
+minutes he had climbed up on the crag, quickly seized Swallow by the
+leg, and pulled her down.
+
+"Now come with me, you foolish little beast, you," scolded Moni, as he
+dragged Swallow along with him to the others, and held her fast for a
+while, until she had taken a good bite of a shrub and thought no more of
+running away.
+
+"Where is Mäggerli?" screamed Moni suddenly, as he noticed Blackie
+standing alone in a steep place, and not eating, but quietly looking
+around her. The little young kid was always near Moni, or running after
+its mother.
+
+"What have you done with your little kid, Blackie?" he called in alarm
+and sprang towards the goat. She seemed quite strange, was not eating,
+but stood still in the same spot and pricked up her ears inquiringly.
+Moni placed himself beside her and looked up and down. Now he heard a
+faint, pitiful bleating; it was Mäggerli's voice, and it came from below
+so plaintive and beseeching. Moni lay down on the ground and leaned
+over. There below something was moving; now he saw quite plainly, far
+down Mäggerli was hanging to the bough of a tree which grew out of the
+rock, and was moaning pitifully; she must have fallen over.
+
+Fortunately the bough had caught her, otherwise she would have fallen
+into the ravine and met a sorry death. Even now if she could no
+longer hold to the bough, she would fall into the depths and be
+dashed to pieces.
+
+In the greatest anguish he called down: "Hold fast, Mäggerli, hold fast
+to the bough! See, I am coming to get you!" But how could he reach
+there? The wall of rock was so steep here, Moni saw very well that it
+would be impossible to go down that way. But the little goat must be
+down there somewhere near the Rain-rock, the overhanging stone under
+which good protection was to be found in rainy weather; the goat-boys
+had always spent rainy days there, therefore the stone had been called
+from old times the Rain-rock. From there, Moni thought he could climb
+across over the rocks and so bring back the little kid.
+
+He quickly whistled the flock together and went with them down to the
+place from which he could reach the Rain-rock. There he left them to
+graze and went to the rock. Here he immediately saw, just a little bit
+above him, the bough of the tree, and the kid hanging to it. He saw very
+well that it would not be an easy task to climb up there and then down
+again with Mäggerli on his back, but there was no other way to rescue
+her. He also thought the dear Lord would surely stand by him, and then
+he could not possibly fail. He folded his hands, looked up to heaven and
+prayed: "Oh, dear Lord, help me, so that I can save Mäggerli!"
+
+Then he was full of trust that all would go well, and he bravely
+clambered up the rock until he reached the bough above. Here he clung
+fast with both feet, lifted the trembling, moaning little creature to
+his shoulders, and then climbed with great caution back down again.
+When he had the firm earth under his feet once more and had saved the
+terror-stricken kid, he was so glad he had to offer thanks aloud and
+cried up to heaven:
+
+"Oh, dear Lord, I thank Thee a thousand times for having helped us so
+well! Oh, we are both so glad for it!" Then he sat down on the ground a
+little while, and stroked the kid, for she was still trembling in all
+her delicate limbs, and comforted her for enduring so much suffering.
+
+As it was soon time for departure, Moni placed the little goat on his
+shoulders again, and said anxiously:
+
+"Come, you poor Mäggerli, you are still trembling; you cannot walk home
+to-day, I must carry you--" and so he carried the little creature,
+clinging close to him, all the way down.
+
+Paula was standing on the last rise in front of the Bath House,
+waiting for the goat-boy. Her aunt had accompanied her. When Moni came
+down with his burden on his back, Paula wanted to know if the kid was
+sick, and showed great interest. When Moni saw this, he at once sat
+down on the ground in front of Paula and told her his day's experience
+with Mäggerli.
+
+The young lady showed very keen interest in the affair and stroked the
+little rescued creature, which now lay quietly in Moni's lap and looked
+very pretty, with its white feet, and the beautiful black pelt on its
+back. It was very willing to be stroked by her.
+
+"Now sing your song again for me, while you are sitting here," said
+Paula. Moni was in such a gay frame of mind that he willingly and
+heartily began and sang his whole song to the end.
+
+This pleased Paula exceptionally well and she said he must sing it to
+her often again. Then the whole company went together down to the Bath
+House. Here the kid was laid in its bed, Moni said farewell, and Paula
+went back to her room to talk with her aunt longer about the goat-boy,
+whose merry morning song she had enjoyed again.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+A VISIT
+
+
+Thus many days passed by, one as sunny and clear as the other, for it
+was an unusually beautiful summer, and the sky remained blue and
+cloudless from morning till evening.
+
+Every morning, early, without exception the goat-boy, singing lustily,
+went by the Bath House. Every evening he came back again singing
+lustily. All the guests were so accustomed to the merry sound that not
+one would have willingly missed it.
+
+More than all the others, Paula delighted in Moni's joyfulness and went
+out almost every evening to meet him, and talk with him.
+
+One sunny morning Moni had once more reached the Pulpit-rock, and was
+about to throw himself down, when he changed his mind. "No, go on! The
+last time you had to leave all the nice little plants because we had to
+go after Mäggerli; now we will go up there again, so that you can finish
+nibbling them!"
+
+The goats all leaped with delight after him, for they knew they were
+going up to the lovely bushes on the Dragon-stones. To-day Moni held
+his little Mäggerli the whole time fast in his arms, pulled the sweet
+plants himself from the rocks and let her eat out of his hand. This
+pleased the little goat best of all. She rubbed her head quite
+contentedly from time to time against Moni's shoulder and bleated
+happily. So the whole morning passed, before Moni noticed, from his own
+hunger, that it had grown late before he was aware of it. But he had
+left his luncheon below near the Pulpit-rock, in the little hole, for he
+had intended to return again at noon.
+
+"Well, you have had your fill of good things, and I have had nothing,"
+he said to his goats. "Now I must have something too, and you will find
+enough more down below. Come along!" Whereupon he gave a loud whistle,
+and the whole flock started away, the liveliest always ahead, and first
+of all light-footed Swallow, who was to meet something unexpected to-day.
+She sprang down from stone to stone and across many a cleft in the
+rocks, but all at once she could go no farther--directly in front of
+her suddenly stood a chamois and gazed with curiosity into her face.
+This had never happened to Swallow before! She stood still, looked
+questioningly at the stranger and waited for the chamois to get out of
+her way and let her leap to the boulder, as she intended. But the
+chamois did not stir and gazed boldly into Swallow's eyes. So they stood
+facing each other, more and more obstinate, and might have stood there
+until now, if the big Sultan had not come along in the meantime. As soon
+as he saw the state of things, he stepped quite considerately past
+Swallow and suddenly pushed the chamois aside so far and with such
+violence, that she had to make a daring leap, not to fall down over the
+rocks. Swallow went triumphantly on her way, and the Sultan marched
+proudly and contentedly behind her, for he felt himself to be the sure
+protector of the goats in his flock.
+
+Meanwhile Moni coming down from above, and another goat-boy coming up
+from below, met at the same spot and looked at each other in
+astonishment. But they were well acquainted, and after the first
+surprise greeted each other cordially. It was Jörgli from Küblis. Half
+the morning he had been looking in vain for Moni and now he met him up
+here, where he had not expected to find him.
+
+"I didn't suppose you came up so high with the goats," said Jörgli.
+
+"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. He is going to buy one, and so I thought I would come up
+to see you."
+
+"Are they your own goats?" asked Moni.
+
+"Surely, they are ours. I don't tend strange ones any longer. I am not
+a goat-boy now."
+
+Moni was very much surprised at this, for Jörgli had become the goat-boy
+of Küblis at the same time he had been made goat-boy of Fideris, and
+Moni did not understand how Jörgli could give it up without a single
+murmur.
+
+Meanwhile the goat-boys and their flocks had reached the Pulpit-rock.
+Moni brought out bread and a small piece of dried meat and invited
+Jörgli to share his midday meal. They both sat down on the Pulpit-rock
+and ate heartily, for it had grown very late and they had excellent
+appetites. When everything was eaten and they had drunk a little goat's
+milk, Jörgli comfortably stretched himself at full length on the ground,
+and rested his head on both arms, but Moni remained sitting, for he
+always liked to look down into the deep valley below.
+
+"But what are you now, Jörgli, if you are no longer goat-boy?" began
+Moni. "You must be something."
+
+"Surely I am something, and something very good," replied Jörgli, "I am
+egg-boy. Every day I carry eggs to all the hotels, as far as I can go;
+I come up here to the Bath House, too. Yesterday I was there."
+
+Moni shook his head. "That's nothing. I wouldn't be an egg-boy; I would
+a thousand times rather be goat-boy, it is much finer."
+
+"But why?"
+
+"Eggs are not alive, you can't speak a word to them, and they don't run
+after you like the goats which are glad to see you when you come, and
+are fond of you, and understand every word you say to them; you can't
+have any pleasure with eggs as you can with the goats up here."
+
+"Yes, and you," interrupted Jörgli, "what great pleasure do you have up
+here? Just now you have had to get up six times while we were eating,
+just on account of that silly kid, to prevent it from falling down
+below--is that a pleasure?"
+
+"Yes, I like to do that! Isn't it so, Mäggerli? Come! Come here!" Moni
+jumped up and ran after the kid, for it was making dangerous leaps for
+sheer joy. When he sat down again, Jörgli 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."
+
+"You needn't think I would do any such thing to the little kid!" said
+Moni quite angrily and drew Mäggerli to him and held her fast, as if to
+protect her from any such treatment.
+
+"You really won't have to take care of that one much longer," began
+Jörgli again. "It won't come up here many times more."
+
+"What? What? What did you say, Jörgli?" demanded Moni.
+
+"Bah, don't you know about it? The landlord will not raise her, she is
+too weak; there never was a more feeble goat. He wanted to sell her to
+my father, but he wouldn't have her either; now the landlord is going to
+have her killed next week, and then he will buy our spotted one."
+
+Moni had become quite pale from terror. 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, Mäggerli, 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 Jörgli, angrily, and pulled Moni up, for in his
+grief he had thrown himself face down on the ground. "Stand up, you know
+the kid really belongs to the landlord and he can do what he likes with
+her. Think no more about it! Come, I know something. See! See!"
+Whereupon Jörgli held out one hand to Moni, and with the other almost
+covered the object, which Moni was to admire; it sparkled wonderfully in
+his hand, for the sun shone straight into it.
+
+"What is it?" asked Moni, when it sparkled again, lighted up by a sunbeam.
+
+"Guess!"
+
+"A ring?"
+
+"No, but something like that."
+
+"Who gave it to you?"
+
+"Gave it to me? Nobody. I found it myself."
+
+"Then it does not belong to you, Jörgli."
+
+"Why not? I didn't take it from anybody. I almost stepped on it with my
+foot, then it would have been broken; so I can just as well keep it."
+
+"Where did you find it?"
+
+"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 Jörgli, beseechingly. "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."
+
+[Illustration: "_Jörgli had opened his band. In it lay a cross set with
+a large number of stones_."]
+
+Jörgli looked up to the sky: "Oh, so far away," he said skeptically;
+but he immediately began to speak more softly.
+
+"He hears you still," said Moni, confidently.
+
+It was no longer Jörgli's secret. If he didn't know how to bring Moni to
+his side, all would be lost. He thought and thought.
+
+"Moni," he said suddenly, "I will promise you something that will
+delight you, if you will not say anything to a human being about what I
+have found; you really don't need to take anything for it, then you will
+have nothing to do with it. If you will do as I say, I will make my
+father buy Mäggerli, so she will not be killed. Will you?"
+
+A hard struggle arose in Moni. It was wrong to help keep the discovery
+secret. Jörgli had opened his hand. In it lay a cross set with a large
+number of stones, which sparkled in many colors. Moni realized that it
+was not a worthless thing which no one would inquire about; he felt
+exactly as if he himself should be keeping what did not belong to him if
+he remained silent. But on the other hand was the little, affectionate
+Mäggerli, that was going to be killed in a horrible way with a knife,
+and he could prevent it if he kept silent. Even now the little kid was
+lying so trustfully beside him, as if, she knew that he would always
+keep it; no, he could not let this happen, he must try to save it.
+
+"Yes, I will, Jörgli," he said, but without any enthusiasm.
+
+"Then it is a bargain!" and Jörgli offered his hand to Moni, that
+he might seal the argument, as that was the only way to make a
+promise binding.
+
+Jörgli was very glad that now his secret was safe; but as Moni had
+become so quiet, and he had much farther to go to reach home than
+Moni, he considered it well to start along with his two goats. He said
+good-night to Moni and whistled for his two companions, which meanwhile
+had joined Moni's grazing goats, but not without much pushing and other
+doubtful behavior between the two parties, for the goats from Fideris
+had never heard that they ought to be polite to visitors and the goats
+from Küblis did not know that they ought not to seek out the best plants
+or push the others away from them, when they were visiting. When Jörgli
+had gone some distance down the mountain, Moni also started along with
+his flock, but he was very still and neither sang a note nor whistled,
+all the way home.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+MONI CAN NO LONGER SING
+
+
+On the following morning Moni came up the path to the Bath House, just
+as silent and cast down as the evening before. He brought out the
+landlord's goats quietly and went on upwards, but he sang not a note,
+nor did he give a yodel up into the air; he let his head hang and looked
+as if he were afraid of something; now and then he looked around
+timidly, as if some one were coming after him to question him.
+
+Moni could no longer be merry; he didn't know himself exactly why. He
+wanted to be glad that he had saved Mäggerli, and sing, but he couldn't
+express it. To-day the sky was covered with clouds, and Moni thought
+when the sun came out it would be different and he could be happy again.
+
+When he reached the top, it began to rain quite hard. He took refuge
+under the Rain-rock, for it soon poured in streams from the sky.
+
+The goats came, too, and placed themselves here and there under the
+rock. The aristocratic Blackie immediately wanted to protect her
+beautiful shiny coat and crept in under the rock before Moni did. She
+was now standing behind Moni and looking out from her comfortable
+corner into the pouring rain. Mäggerli was standing in front of its
+protector under the projecting rock and gently rubbed its little head
+against his knee; then it looked up at him in surprise, because Moni
+did not say a word, and it was not accustomed to that. Moni sat
+thoughtfully, leaning on his staff, for in such weather he always kept
+it in his hand, to keep himself from slipping on the steep places,
+for on such days he wore shoes. Now, as he sat for hours under the
+Rain-rock, he had plenty of time for reflection.
+
+Moni thought over what he had promised Jörgli, and it seemed to him that
+if Jörgli had taken something, he was practically doing the same thing
+himself, because Jörgli had promised to give him something or do
+something for him. He had surely done what was wrong, and the dear Lord
+was now against him. This he felt in his heart, and it was right that it
+was dark and rainy and that he was hidden under the rock, for he would
+not even have dared look up into the blue sky, as usual.
+
+But there were still other things that Moni had to think about. If
+Mäggerli should fall down over a steep precipice again, and he wanted
+to get it, the dear Lord would no longer protect him, and he no longer
+dared to pray to Him about it and call upon Him, and so had no more
+safety; and if then he should slip and fall down with Mäggerli deep over
+the jagged, rocks, and both of them should lie all torn and maimed! Oh,
+no, he said with anguish in his heart, that must not happen anyway; he
+must manage to be able to pray again and come to the dear Lord with
+everything that weighed on his heart; then he could be happy again, that
+he felt sure of. Moni would throw off the weight that oppressed him, he
+would go and tell the landlord everything--But then? Then Jörgli would
+not persuade his father, and the landlord would slaughter Mäggerli. Oh,
+no! Oh, no! he couldn't bear that, and he said: "No, I will not do it!
+I will say nothing!" But he did not feel satisfied, and the weight on
+his heart grew heavier and heavier. Thus Moni's whole day passed.
+
+He started home at evening as silent as he had come in the morning. When
+he found Paula standing near the Bath House, and she sprang quickly
+across to the goat-shed and asked sympathetically: "Moni, what is the
+matter? Why don't you sing any more?" he turned shyly away and said:
+
+"I can't," and as quickly as possible made off with his goats.
+
+Paula said to her aunt above: "If I only knew what was the matter with
+the goat-boy! He is quite changed. You wouldn't know him. If he would
+only sing again!"
+
+"It must be the frightful rain which has silenced the boy so!" remarked
+the aunt.
+
+"Everything all comes together; let us go home, Aunt," begged Paula,
+"there is no more pleasure here. First I lost my beautiful cross, and it
+can't be found; then comes this endless rain, and now we can't ever hear
+the merry goat-boy any more. Let us go away!"
+
+"The cure must be finished, or it will do no good," explained the aunt.
+
+It was also dark and gray on the following day, and the rain poured down
+without ceasing. Moni spent the day exactly like the one before. He sat
+under the rock and his thoughts went restlessly round in a circle, for
+when he decided: "Now, I will go and confess the wrong, so that I shall
+dare to look up to the dear Lord again," then he saw the little kid
+under the knife before him and it all began over again in his mind from
+the beginning; so that with thinking and brooding, and the weight he
+carried, he was very tired by night, and crept home in the streaming
+rain as if he didn't notice it at all.
+
+By the Bath House below the landlord was standing in the back doorway
+and called to Moni: "Come in with them. They are wet enough! Why, you
+are crawling down the mountain like a snail! I wonder what is the matter
+with you!"
+
+The landlord had never been so unfriendly before. On the contrary he
+had always made the most friendly remarks to the merry goat-boy. But
+Moni's changed appearance did not please him, and besides he was in a
+worse humor than usual because Fräulein Paula had just complained to him
+about her loss and assured him that the valuable cross could only have
+been lost in the house or directly in front of the house-door. She had
+only stepped out on that day towards evening, to hear the goat-boy sing
+on his way home. To have it said that it was possible for such a costly
+thing to be lost in his house, beyond recovery, made him very cross. The
+day before he had called together the whole staff of servants, examined
+and threatened them, and finally offered a reward to the finder. The
+whole house was in an uproar over the lost ornament.
+
+When Moni with his goats passed by the front of the house, Paula was
+standing there. She had been waiting for him, for she wondered very
+much whether he would ever sing any more or be merry. As he now crept
+by, she called:
+
+"Moni! Moni! Are you really the same goat-boy who used to sing from
+morning till night:
+
+  "'And so blue is the sky there
+  My joy can't be told'?"
+
+
+Moni heard the words very well; he gave no answer, but they made a great
+impression on him. Oh, how different it really was from the time when
+he could sing all day long and he felt exactly as he sang. Oh, if it
+could only be like that again!
+
+Again Moni climbed up the mountain, silent and sad and without singing.
+The rain had now ceased, but thick fog hung around on the mountains,
+and the sky was still full of dark clouds. Moni again sat under the
+rock and battled with his thoughts. About noon the sky began to clear;
+it grew brighter and brighter. Moni came out of his cave and looked
+around. The goats once more sprang gayly here and there, and the little
+kid was quite frolicsome from delight at the returning sun and made the
+merriest leaps.
+
+Moni stood on the Pulpit-rock and saw how it was growing brighter and
+more beautiful below in the valley and above over the mountains beyond.
+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. Then Moni seized the little kid, that
+was jumping about him, took it in his arms and said tenderly: "Oh,
+Mäggerli, you poor Mäggerli! I have certainly done what I could, but it
+is wrong, and that must not be done. Oh, if only you didn't have to die!
+I can't bear it!"
+
+And Moni began to cry so hard, that he could no longer speak, and the
+kid bleated pitifully and crept far under his arm, as if it wanted to
+cling to him and be protected. Then Moni lifted the little goat on his
+shoulders, saying:
+
+"Come, Mäggerli, I will carry you home once more to-day. Perhaps I can't
+carry you much longer."
+
+When the flock came down to the Bath House, Paula was again standing on
+the watch. Moni put the young goat with the black one in the shed, and
+instead of going on farther, he came toward the young lady and was going
+past her into the house. She stopped him.
+
+"Still no singing, Moni? Where are you going with such a troubled face?"
+
+"I have to tell about something," replied Moni, without lifting his eyes.
+
+"Tell about something? What is it? Can't I know?"
+
+"I must tell the landlord. Something has been found."
+
+"Found? What is it? I have lost something, a beautiful cross."
+
+"Yes, that is just what it is."
+
+"What do you say?" exclaimed Paula, in the greatest surprise. "Is it a
+cross with sparkling stones?"
+
+"Yes, exactly that."
+
+"What have you done with it, Moni? Give it to me. Did you find it?"
+
+"No, Jörgli from Küblis found it."
+
+Then Paula wanted to know who he was and where he lived, and to send
+some one to Küblis at once to get the cross.
+
+"I will go as fast as I can, and if he still has it I will bring it to
+you," said Moni.
+
+"If he still has it?" said Paula. "Why shouldn't he still have it? And
+how do you know all about it, Moni? When did he find it, and how did you
+hear about it?"
+
+Moni looked on the ground. He didn't dare say how it had all come
+about, and how he had helped to conceal the discovery until he could
+no longer bear it.
+
+But Paula was very kind to Moni. 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."
+
+Then Moni gained confidence and began to relate the whole story, and
+told her every word of his struggle about Mäggerli and how he had lost
+all happiness and dared no longer look up to the dear Lord, and how
+to-day he couldn't bear it any longer.
+
+Then Paula talked with him very kindly and said he should have come
+immediately and told everything, and it was right that he had told her
+all now so frankly, and that he would not regret it. Then she said he
+could promise Jörgli ten francs, as soon as she had the cross in her
+hands again.
+
+"Ten francs!" repeated Moni, full of astonishment, for he knew how
+Jörgli would have sold it for much less. Then Moni rose and said he
+would go right away that very day to Küblis, and if he got the cross
+he would bring it with him early the next morning. He ran along and
+was once more able to leap and jump, for he had a much lighter heart
+and the heavy burden no longer weighed him down to the ground.
+
+When he reached home, he only put his goats in, told his grandmother he
+had an errand to do, and ran at once down to Küblis. He found Jörgli at
+home and told him without delay what he had done. At first the boy was
+very angry, but when he considered that all was known, he took out the
+cross and asked:
+
+"Will she give me anything for it?"
+
+"Yes, and now you can see, Jörgli," said Moni, indignantly, "how by
+being honorable you will receive ten francs, and by being deceitful
+only four: the ten francs you are going to have now."
+
+Jörgli was very much amazed. He regretted that he had not gone
+immediately with the cross to the Bath House, after he had picked it up
+in front of the door, for now he had not a clear conscience and it might
+have been so different! But now it was too late. He gave the cross to
+Moni, who hastened home with it, for it had already grown quite dark.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+MONI SINGS AGAIN
+
+
+Paula had given orders to be wakened early the next morning, for she
+wanted to be on the spot when the goat-boy came. She was anxious to deal
+with him herself. That evening she had held a long conversation with the
+landlord, and had then come out of his room quite happy; so she must
+have planned something delightful with him.
+
+When the goat-boy came along with his flock in the morning, Paula was
+already standing in front of the house, and she called out:
+
+"Moni, can't you sing even now?"
+
+He shook his head. "No, I can't. I am always wondering how much
+longer Mäggerli will go with me. I never can sing any more as long as
+I live, and here is the cross." Whereupon he handed her a little
+package, for the grandmother had wrapped it carefully for him in
+three or four papers.
+
+Paula took out the cross from the wrappings and examined it closely. It
+really was her beautiful cross with the sparkling stones, and quite
+unharmed. "Well, Moni," she said now very kindly, "you have given me a
+great pleasure, for if it had not been for you, I might never have seen
+my cross again. Now, I am going to give you a pleasure. Go take Mäggerli
+there out of the shed, she belongs to you now!"
+
+Moni stared at the young lady in astonishment, as if it were impossible
+to understand her words. At last he stammered: "But how--how can
+Mäggerli be mine?"
+
+"How?" replied Paula, smiling. "See, last evening I bought her from
+the landlord and this morning I give her to you. Now can't you sing
+once more?"
+
+"Oh! Oh! Oh!" exclaimed Moni and ran like mad to the shed, led the
+little goat out, and took it in his arms. Then he leaped back and held
+out his hand to Paula and said over and over again:
+
+"I thank you a thousand, thousand times! May God reward you! If I could
+do something nice for you!"
+
+"Well, then try once more and let us see if you can sing again!"
+said Paula.
+
+Then Moni sang his song and went on up the mountain with the goats, and
+his jubilant tones rang down into the valley, so that there was no one
+in the whole Bath House who did not hear it and many an one turned over
+in his bed and said: "The goat-boy has good weather once more."
+
+All were glad to hear him sing again, for all had depended on the merry
+alarm, some in order to get up, others to sleep a while longer.
+
+When Moni, from the first summit, saw Paula still standing below in
+front of the house, he stepped as far out as possible and sang down
+at the top of his voice:
+
+  "And so blue is the sky there
+  My joy can't be told."
+
+
+The whole day long Moni shouted for joy, and all the goats caught his
+spirit and jumped and sprang around as if it were a great festival. The
+sun shone cheerfully down out of the blue sky, and after the great rain,
+all the little plants were so fresh, and the yellow and red flowers so
+bright, it seemed to Moni as if he had never seen the mountains and the
+valley and the whole world so beautiful before. He didn't let the little
+kid leave him the whole day; he pulled up the best plants for it and fed
+it, and said over and over again:
+
+"Mäggerli, you dear Mäggerli, you do not have to die. You are now mine
+and will come up to the pasture with me as long as we live." And with
+resounding singing and yodeling Moni came down again at evening and
+after he had led the black goat to her shed, he took the little kid in
+his arms, for it was now coming home with him. Mäggerli did not look as
+if it would rather stay there, but pressed close to Moni and felt that
+it was under the best protection, for Moni had for a long time treated
+it better and more kindly than its own mother.
+
+But when Moni came near his grandmother's with Mäggerli on his
+shoulders, she didn't know at all what to make of it, and although Moni
+called from a distance:
+
+"She belongs to me, Grandmother, she belongs to me!" she didn't
+understand for some time what he meant. But Moni couldn't explain to
+her yet; he ran to the shed, and there right next to Brownie, so that
+it wouldn't be afraid, he made Mäggerli a fine, soft bed of fresh straw,
+and laid it down, saying:
+
+"There, Mäggerli, now sleep well in your new home! You must always have
+this; every day I will make you a new bed!"
+
+Then Moni came back directly to his wondering grandmother, and while
+they sat together at their supper, he told her the whole story from the
+very beginning about his three days so full of trouble, and the happy
+ending to-day.
+
+The grandmother listened very quietly and attentively and when he came
+to the end, she said earnestly:
+
+"Moni, you must remember what has happened to you now, as long as you
+live! While you were having so great trouble with wrong-doing in order
+to help the little creature, the dear Lord had already found a way to
+help it and make you happy as soon as you would do what was right in His
+sight. 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."
+
+But before Moni could lie down to sleep, he had to look into the shed
+once more, to see if it were really possible that the little kid was
+lying out there and belonged to him.
+
+Jörgli received the ten francs according to the agreement, but he was
+not allowed to escape from the affair so easily as that. When he
+returned to the Bath House, he was brought to the landlord who took the
+boy by the collar, gave him a good shaking, and said threateningly:
+
+"Jörgli! Jörgli! Don't you try a second time to bring my whole house
+into bad repute! If anything like this happens a single time again, you
+will come out of my house in a way that will not please you! See, up
+there hangs a very sharp willow rod for such cases. Now go and think
+this over."
+
+Moreover, the event had other consequences for the boy. From this time
+on, if anything was lost anywhere in the Bath House, all the servants
+immediately exclaimed: "Jörgli from Küblis has it!" and if he came
+afterwards into the house they all pounced on him together and cried:
+"Give it here, Jörgli! Out with it!" And if he assured them he had
+nothing and knew nothing about it, they would all exclaim: "We know
+you already!" and "You can't fool us!"
+
+So Jörgli had to endure the most menacing attacks continually, and had
+hardly a moment's peace any more, for if he saw any one approaching him,
+he at once thought he was coming to ask if he had found this or that.
+So Jörgli was not at all happy; and a hundred times he thought: "If only
+I had given back that cross immediately! I will never in my whole life
+keep anything else that doesn't belong to me."
+
+But Moni never ceased singing and yodeling, the whole summer long, for
+there was hardly another human being in the world as happy as he was up
+there with his goats. Often, however, when he lay stretched out in his
+contentment on the Pulpit-rock, and gazed down into the sunny valley
+below, he had to think how he had sat that time with the heavy burden on
+his heart, under the Rain-rock, and all happiness was gone; and he would
+say again and again in his heart: "I know now what I will do, so that it
+will never happen again: I will do nothing that will prevent me from
+looking up gladly to heaven, because this is right to the dear Lord."
+
+But if it chanced that Moni became too long absorbed in his meditation,
+one or another of the goats would come along, gaze wonderingly at him
+and try to attract his attention by bleating, which oftentimes he did
+not hear for quite a while. Only when Mäggerli came and called after him
+longingly, then he heard at once and came leaping to it immediately, for
+his affectionate little kid always remained Moni's dearest possession.
+
+
+
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