Christ Legends

ins. They were strangers, and lived in absolute solitude without ever receiving a visit from a human being. But one morning when the laborer opened hi

se and came to meet him, that it made him think of what the legends had t

s night on your threshold. My parents lived in this hut, and here I was born nearly ninety year

poor strangers we have not been able to find a better dwelling-place. But to you, who must be tired and hungry after the long journey, which you at your extreme age have undertaken, it is perhaps

so fleeting that it could not dispel the expressio

mountains," she said. "I have not yet forgott

r didn't doubt that she still possessed strength enough, despi

Although she seemed to be well satisfied with the fare of coarse bread soaked in goats' milk, both the man and his wife thought: "Where can th

its earth floor was certainly not much changed. She pointed out to her hosts that on the walls there were still visible some traces of dogs and deer which her father

she was born in this hut, but she has surely had much more to atte

en far away, and that she sighed heavily and

ked them graciously for the hospitality s

ention, when you dragged yourself up here last night, to leave this hut so soon. If you are actually as poor as you seem, it must have been

s hut, which for many years has been deserted, belongs to you as

ely have a better right to it than we have. Besides, we are you

She turned around on the threshold and stared at the man, a

g wife joined in

rmit us to stay with her and take care of her. What service would we render her if we gave her this miserable hut and then left her? It woul

rded them carefully. "Why do you speak thus?" she aske

: "It is because we ourselve