The young lady showed very keen interest in the affair and stroked the little rescued creature, which now lay quietly in Moni’s lap and looked very pretty, with its white feet, and the beautiful black pelt on its back. It was very willing to be stroked by her.
“Now sing your song again for me, while you are sitting here,” said Paula. Moni was in such a gay frame of mind that he willingly and heartily began and sang his whole song to the end.
This pleased Paula exceptionally well and she said he must sing it to her often again. Then the whole company went together down to the Bath House. Here the kid was laid in its bed, Moni said farewell, and Paula went back to her room to talk with her aunt longer about the goat-boy, whose merry morning song she had enjoyed again.
