The Star-Child

And after a time she turned round and looked at him. Her eyes were full of tears. And he came in swiftly, and placed the child in her arms. She kissed it, and laid it in a little bed, where the youngest of their own children was lying. And on the next morning the Woodcutter took the curious cloak of gold and placed it in a big box. A chain of amber that was tound the child’s neck his wife took and put in the box also.