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lingly talk about what I wanted to talk about.
He was also very flexible and had no fixed opinions. He was just a little curious,
for, when I walked away from him, as soon as he saw I had stopped, he would run
over to me to see what I was doing and hear what I was saying to the flowers of the
Good Lord. And if he arrived too late, he would ask me what I had said.

Maximin told me to teach him a game. It was already late morning. I told him to gather some
flowers for the "Paradise". We set to work together. Soon we had a number of flowers of various
colours. I could hear the village Angelus ringing, for the weather was fine and there wasn't a
cloud in the sky. Having told the Good Lord what we had learned, I said to Maximin that we ought to
drive our cows on to a small plateau near the gully, where there would be stones with which to
build the "Paradise". We drove our cows to the selected spot and then had a small meal.
Then we started collecting stones to build our little house, which comprised of a so called
ground floor which was where we were to live, and then a storey above which was to be, as we called
it, "Paradise."

This storey was decorated all over with different
colored flowers, with garlands hanging from flower stalks. This "Paradise" was
covered
by a single large stone which we had strewn with flowers. We had also hung garlands all the way
round. When we had finished, we sat and looked at the "Paradise". We began to feel sleepy and