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[Illustration: In the midst of the flock came the goat-boy.]

 

 

 

 

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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

 

 

 

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 so

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