![]() ![]() ![]() Her mother gave her pancakes with her - as many as she wanted, and bread and cheese as well. The eldest daughter had by this time grown curious, and the next morning also insisted on going out into the forest. So she took the little bag and ran home with it, and took it to her mother, but she secretly kept two pieces for herself. Joseph, he had vanished, but behind the door she found a little sack of money that was about as long as a hand, and on it was written that it was for the child who had slept there last night. In the morning when the child awoke and looked for St. Joseph took her in his arms and put her in the bed, and laid himself on the straw. Joseph offered her his bed and wanted to lie on the straw, she replied, "No, lie down in the bed, there is plenty of room for both of us." St. When it was ready, he likewise said to her, "I am so hungry, give me some of thy food." Then the child said, "You may have your share." Afterwards, when St. Joseph's little hut, who gave her roots for a thick soup. It happened with her just as with the first child. Her mother gave her a much larger piece of pancake and bread. The next day, the second child also took a fancy to go into the forest. On this she took the bag, bounded away with it, and got safely to her mother, and as she gave her mother all the money, she could not help being satisfied with her. Then she got up and looked for him, but could not find him anywhere at last she perceived, behind the door, a bag with money so heavy that she could just carry it, and on it was written that it was for the child who had slept there that night. Next morning when she awoke, she wanted to say good morning to St. Joseph, however, took the child in his arms, and carried her into the little bed, and there she said her prayers, and fell asleep. I will lie on the ground on the straw." - "No," answered she, "stay in your own bed, the straw is soft enough for me." St. Joseph said, "Now we will go to bed I have, however, only one bed, lay thyself in it. The child was quite willing, and gave him more than she kept for herself, but God's blessing was with her, so that she was satisfied. Joseph said, "I am so hungry give me some of thy food. The girl scraped them clean, then she brought a piece of pancake and the bread that her mother had given her to take with her mixed all together in a pan, and cooked herself a thick soup. He said quite kindly, "Come, dear child, seat thyself on my little chair by the fire, and warm thyself I will fetch thee clear water if thou art thirsty but here in the forest, I have nothing for thee to eat but a couple of little roots, which thou must first scrape and boil." An old man, who had a snow-white beard and looked venerable, opened it for her and he was no other than St. She knocked, the door opened, and she came to a second door, where she knocked again. She walked on constantly until evening came, and then she saw a tiny light burning in the distance, ran up to it at once, and came to a little hut. Once, however, the guardian-angel behaved as if he were not there, and the child could not find her way out of the forest again. But the guardian-angel which every good child has, did not forsake her, but always brought her into the right path again. On this account, she often sent the poor girl out into the great forest in order to get rid of her, for she thought she would lose herself and never come back again. ![]() The mother was, however, so strange, that it was just the eldest daughter whom she most loved, and she could not bear the youngest. There was once on a time a mother who had three daughters, the eldest of whom was rude and wicked, the second much better, although she had her faults, but the youngest was a pious, good child.
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