enough to let your daughter come and be godmother to the child?"
"When is the christening?"
"To-morrow morning."
"Very well; go, in God's name. Tomorrow my daughter will be at the church."
The next day the godmother and godfather came; the child was christened, but directly after the christening the godfather disappeared. No one knew who he was and no one saw him from that day.
II
The child grew up to the parents' great joy; and he was strong and industrious and clever and humble. When he was ten years old the parents sent him to school, and what it took others five years to learn the boy learnt in one. And there was no one in the village who could teach him more.
Easter came round and the boy went to his godmother to give her the Easter greeting. When he returned home he said, "Father and mother, where does my godfather live? I should like to give him the Easter greeting, too."
