Stineli laughed, and, glancing at Rico, sang,--

"And a sad little boy,
And a very gay maid;
And a lake like another,
That from water is made."

Laughing and singing, Stineli went
on,--

"And the lambkins, and the lambkins,
They jumped up so high,
And all were most merry,
And did not know why.

"And a boy and a girl
By the lake-side did sit,
And because they forgot it,
It hurt not a bit."

Now they began at the very beginning, and sang the whole thing through
again, and made merry over it, and were so happy that they sang it at
least ten times over; and the more they repeated it, the better it
sounded to their ears.

After this Rico played several tunes that he had learned from his
father; but they soon came back to their own song, and began that again.

In the midst of it the girl stopped and said, "It has just come into