The grandmother recommended one of her brother's children from over the mountains. So it was decided that they should send word to Uncle Peter to come, and bring one of his daughters with him. The morning was clear and bracing, and Hansei, who had put on his snow-white shirt, said, while lighting his pipe: "Walpurga, let your mother work a little while, and come out into the garden." He was sitting on the bench under the cherry-tree. Walpurga soon joined him and, after the fashion of women, said that she could only remain for a short time, that she had various matters to attend to, and that they ought to be at church in good season. She sat down beside him, and Hansei said: "Why don't you say something? you must have lots to tell about." "I can't think of anything now. Just wait, it'll all come in time. It's happiness enough that we're together again. If we, all of us, only keep well. I think our cherry-tree has grown." "And now that I think of it, you've had no cherries from it this year. I'll climb up and get some for you, and if I could get up, way beyond the tree, and bring down the blue sky for you, I'd do it." He climbed up the tree, and cried out: "Shoo! you sparrows, you've had enough. My old woman's here again, but she's a young one, still, and wants some, too. You've had your wives with you the whole year, and I haven't." He hurriedly plucked the finest cherries, singing the while: "In cherry time, you left me, dear; In cherry time, again you're here. The cherries they are black and red, And I'll love my darling till I'm dead." Suddenly he called out: "Walpurga, I must come down, I can't get any more for you, I'm so giddy." He was soon on the ground again and said: "That never happened to me before, in all my life, and I've been up there many a half-day at a time. I suppose it's our good fortune that makes me so giddy. I'll never climb a tree again, I promise you that. It would be a terrible thing if I were to fall down. We must take care that we keep well and hearty, and stick to each other. I don't want to break my legs. I want to dance with you yet. I'll dance with you at Burgei's wedding. It seems as if I could hear the music already. Hark! don't you hear anything?" "No. It'll be a long while before the music for Burgei's wedding is struck up." "And she must get a good husband; I won't have it otherwise. What do you think of a prince? but I'll be quiet, for I'm talking nothing but silly stuff. I scarcely know what I'm saying, where I am, or who I am, and--" "We're at home, and you're my husband and that's all of it. You'll see, I have something else good in store for you." "Tell me nothing, and promise me nothing more. I've got enough already. I can hardly believe that we've a child. It seems as if we were just married." In a soft voice, too low for any passer-by to hear it and just loud enough for them to know they were singing, they sang: