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up my cows and tidying up in the stable, and
had not yet finished when my mistress came up
to me in tears and said:

"Why, my child, why didn't you come and
tell me what happened on the mountain?"

Maximin, not having found his masters who
were still at work, had come over to mine and recounted everything he had seen and heard. I
replied:

"I did want to tell you, but I wanted to get my work finished first." A moment later, I walked
over to the house and my mistress said to me:

"Tell me what you have seen. De Bruite, the
shepherd (that was the nick name of Pierre Sel­
me, Maximin's master), has told me everything."

I began, and towards the middle of the account, my master arrived back from the
fields.
My mistress, who was in tears at hearing the complaints and threats of our sweet Mother, said:
"Ah! You were going to harvest the wheat
tomorrow (Sunday). Take great care. Come and hear what happened today to this child and Pierre
Selme's shepherd boy." And turning to me, she said:

"Repeat everything you have said."
I start again, and when I had finished, my master said:

"It was the Holy Virgin or else a great saint, who has come on behalf of the Good Lord, but
it's as if the Good Lord had come Himself. We