" he asked.
""I"m watching the stork," she replied: "our neighbors told methat he would bring us a little brother or sister to-day; let us watchto see it come!"
""The stork brings no such things," the boy declared, "you maybe sure of that. Our neighbor told me the same thing, but shelaughed when she said it, and so I asked her if she could say "On myhonor," and she could not; and I know by that the story about thestorks is not true, and that they only tell it to us children forfun."
""But where do babies come from, then?" asked the girl.
""Why, an angel from heaven brings them under his cloak, but noman can see him; and that"s why we never know when he brings them."
"At that moment there was a rustling in the branches of the willowtree, and the children folded their hands and looked at one another:it was certainly the angel coming with the baby. They took eachother"s hand, and at that moment the door of one of the houses opened,and the neighbour appeared.
""Come in, you two," she said. "See what the stork has brought. Itis a little brother."
"And the children nodded gravely at one another, for they had feltquite sure already that the baby was come."
FOURTEENTH EVENING
"I was gliding over the Luneburg Heath," the Moon said. "Alonely hut stood by the wayside, a few scanty bushes grew near it, anda nightingale who had lost his way sang sweetly. He died in thecoldness of the night: it was his farewell song that I heard.
"The morning dawn came glimmering red. I saw a caravan of emigrantpeasant families who were bound to Hamburgh, there to take ship forAmerica, where fancied prosperity would bloom for them. The motherscarried their little children at their backs, the elder onestottered by their sides, and a poor starved horse tugged at a cartthat bore their scanty effects. The cold wind whistled, andtherefore the little girl nestled closer to the mother, who, lookingup at my decreasing disc, thought of the bitter want at home, andspoke of the heavy taxes they had not been able to raise. The wholecaravan thought of the same thing; therefore, the rising dawn seemedto them a message from the sun, of fortune that was to gleambrightly upon them. They heard the dying nightingale sing; it was nofalse prophet, but a harbinger of fortune. The wind whistled,therefore they did not understand that the nightingale sung, "Fareaway over the sea! Thou hast paid the long passage with all that wasthine, and poor and helpless shalt thou enter Canaan. Thou must sellthyself, thy wife, and thy children. But your griefs shall not lastlong. Behind the broad fragrant leaves lurks the goddess of Death, andher welcome kiss shall breathe fever into thy blood. Fare away, fareaway, over the heaving billows." And the caravan listened well pleasedto the song of the nightingale, which seemed to promise goodfortune. Day broke through the light clouds; country people wentacross the heath to church; the black-gowned women with their whitehead-dresses looked like ghosts that had stepped forth from the churchpictures. All around lay a wide dead plain, covered with faded brownheath, and black charred spaces between the white sand hills. Thewomen carried hymn books, and walked into the church. Oh, pray, prayfor those who are wandering to find graves beyond the foamingbillows."
FIFTEENTH EVENING
"I know a Pulcinella," the Moon told me. "The public applaudvociferously directly they see him. Every one of his movements iscomic, and is sure to throw the house into convulsions of laughter;and yet there is no art in it all- it is complete nature. When hewas yet a little boy, playing about with other boys, he was alreadyPunch. Nature had intended him for it, and had provided him with ahump on his back, and another on his breast; but his inward man, hismind, on the contrary, was richly furnished. No one could surpasshim in depth of feeling or in readiness of intellect. The theatrewas his ideal world. If he had possessed a slender well-shaped figure,he might have been the first tragedian on any stage; the heroic, thegreat, filled his soul; and yet he had to become a Pulcinella. Hisvery sorrow and melancholy did but increase the comic dryness of hissharply-cut features, and increased the laughter of the audience,who showered plaudits on their favourite. The lovely Columbine wasindeed kind and cordial to him; but she preferred to marry theHarlequin. It would have been too ridiculous if beauty and uglinesshad in reality paired together.
"When Pulcinella was in very bad spirits, she was the only one whocould force a hearty burst of laughter, or even a smile from him:first she would be melancholy with him, then quieter, and at lastquite cheerful and happy. "I know very well what is the matter withyou," she said; "yes, you"re in love!
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