"It sounds like the cry of a little child. I shall run to my cave."

But as he heard the cry again, something made him want to see what it
was.

He slipped cautiously through the bushes, in the direction from which
the sound came.

When he reached the place he found a little baby boy.

This was the same forest to which Brunhilde had fled, bearing the broken
sword to Siegmund's wife.

But now the mother had died, and Siegmund's child was left alone in the
woods.


MIMI AND THE BABY

Mimi was mean and selfish.

He would not even have cared for a little child alone in the woods had
he not thought that by so doing he might gain something for himself.

As he looked at the baby he heard a strange voice saying:--

"Siegfried is his name, and only he who knows no fear can mend the
sword."

"The sword? The sword?" questioned Mimi. "What does the voice mean?"