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21
She
again
blew
her
whistle
and
again
a
number
of
guinea-pigs
appeared
,
dressed
in
human
attire
.
They
wore
cook
's
aprons
,
and
had
cooking
spoons
and
carving
knives
stuck
in
their
waistbands
.
22
After
them
came
a
crowd
of
squirrels
,
clad
in
wide
Turkish
trousers
,
with
little
green
velvet
caps
on
their
heads
.
They
appeared
to
be
the
kitchen
servants
,
for
they
at
once
began
to
clamber
up
and
down
the
walls
and
brought
pots
and
pans
,
eggs
and
butter
,
herbs
and
flour
,
and
carried
them
to
the
firepkice
,
where
the
old
woman
seemed
to
be
very
busy
with
her
cookery
.
The
fire
burned
merrily
and
the
contents
of
the
pans
began
to
steam
and
hiss
and
send
forth
a
very
pleasant
smell
.
23
At
length
the
soup
was
cooked
and
the
old
woman
poured
some
into
a
silver
dish
and
set
it
before
little
Jacob
,
"
Eat
,
mv
little
man
,
"
said
she
,
"
and
you
will
have
all
that
you
have
coveted
in
me
.
You
shall
become
a
clever
cook
too
,
but
you
shall
never
,
never
find
the
herb
that
was
missing
in
your
mother
's
basket
.
"
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24
The
boy
did
not
understand
what
she
was
talking
about
;
but
he
went
on
eating
his
soup
,
which
was
delicious
.
His
mother
often
cooked
tasty
dishes
for
him
,
but
never
anything
like
this
.
An
odour
of
fine
herbs
and
vegetables
arose
from
it
,
it
was
both
sour
and
sweet
and
very
strong
.
As
he
finished
the
last
of
it
the
guinea-pigs
set
light
to
some
incense
,
which
rose
in
a
blue
cloud
and
was
wafted
througli
the
room
.
Thicker
and
thicker
the
incense
rose
athe
little
boy
began
to
feel
stupefied
.
He
tried
to
rise
,
telling
himself
that
he
must
hasten
back
to
his
mother
,
but
he
only
fell
back
again
,
and
at
length
,
quite
overcome
,
he
fell
fast
asleep
on
the
old
woman
's
sofa
.
25
Then
he
began
to
dream
,
such
strange
dreams
!
26
It
seemed
to
him
as
though
the
old
woman
took
off
all
his
clothes
and
dressed
him
up
in
a
squirrel
's
skin
and
he
was
at
once
able
to
jump
about
like
the
other
squirrels
in
the
house
and
began
to
take
his
place
with
them
and
the
guinea-pigs
,
and
that
,
like
they
,
he
too
became
one
of
the
old
woman
's
servants
.
At
first
he
was
the
shoe-black
and
it
was
his
duty
to
polish
the
cocoa-nut
shells
the
old
woman
wore
instead
of
shoes
.
He
had
learnt
to
polish
shoes
in
his
own
home
,
and
as
his
father
was
a
cobbler
he
had
been
particularly
well
taught
,
so
that
he
was
clever
at
his
work
.
27
A
year
seemed
to
pass
and
then
he
dreamt
that
he
was
given
more
important
duties
.
He
and
some
other
squirrels
were
set
to
work
to
catch
the
sunbeam
dust
and
sift
it
through
fine
sieves
.
This
dust
was
used
instead
of
flour
to
make
the
bread
the
old
woman
ate
,
for
she
had
no
teeth
,
and
sunbeam
dust
makes
the
very
softest
and
finest
of
bread
.
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28
Another
dream
year
passed
and
then
he
was
promoted
to
be
one
of
the
water-carriers
.
You
must
not
imagine
the
old
woman
kept
a
water-cistern
or
a
water-butt
handy
.
Oh
!
dear
no
!
Jacob
and
the
squirrels
had
to
draw
the
dew
from
the
roses
into
hazel-nut
shells
;
this
was
the
old
woman
's
drinking
water
,
and
as
she
was
always
thirsty
it
was
hard
work
to
keep
her
supplied
with
it
.
At
the
end
of
another
year
he
was
appointed
to
do
the
indoor
work
.
His
particular
duty
was
to
keep
the
glass
floor
in
order
.
29
He
had
to
sweep
it
over
and
then
,
wrap
soft
polishing
cloths
round
his
feet
and
slide
up
and
down
the
room
until
the
glass
shone
brilliantly
.
30
At
the
end
of
the
year
he
was
promoted
to
the
kitchen
;
this
was
a
place
of
honour
,
only
to
be
reached
after
long
training
.
lie
began
at
the
beginning
as
a
scullion
and
advanced
rapidly
until
he
was
head
cook
.
Sometimes
he
could
not
but
wonder
at
his
own
skill
,
for
he
could
cook
the
most
difficult
dishes
and
could
make
no
less
than
two
hundred
different
kinds
of
pastries
.
Then
he
was
a
first-rate
hand
at
soups
,
and
could
make
every
kind
that
had
ever
been
heard
of
,
and
knew
the
use
of
every
kind
of
vegetable
that
grew
.
Several
years
had
now
passed
away
in
the
service
of
the
old
woman
and
one
day
she
put
on
her
cocoa-nut
shoes
,
took
her
staff
and
basket
in
her
hand
,
and
prepared
to
go
out
.