Then I will take you besides to the trees where all the
birds sing 'Only trust the dear Lord!' and where the finch cries so loud
above them all: 'Trust! Trust! Trust! Trust!' Have you heard him too?"
At this description little Betti's eyes grew bigger and brighter with
expectation.
"Come now, let's go right away to the birds," she exclaimed, jumped up
and ran in haste to the carriage.
Sami followed.
At this moment Tina, with a very red face, came running up from below.
Her looks did not portend anything good.
"So I have found you at last," she cried angrily from a distance.
"Everybody is running around looking for you--your three brothers, the
servants, the coachman--everybody! I have run myself half dead for you.
Sit down in the carriage, you naughty little thing. The little tramp can
go where he likes. No, he must come back again; his bundle is lying in
the courtyard. So he can pull the carriage if he has to come with us."
Little Betti did not seem very much frightened by this lively speech. She
climbed quickly into the carriage and said gaily: "Go ahead, Sami!"
He obeyed quite crushed, for now he could only return for his bundle;
then he would have to go away again, and he had so firmly believed this
was the place where he was to stay according to his grandmother's advice,
and it had pleased him so much.
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