Brother Jim has now joined St. Peter in the disguise of a sailor. Their adventure continues…

So St. Peter, disguised as a sailor (yellow glow around his sailor’s cap), and I wlaked down the road. After a while we came to a farm house where we heard a tremendous moaning and crying. So we wnet inside and found a man laying ill and ready to die. The farmer’s wife was weeping and wailing noisly.

“Stop your weeping and wailing,” said St. Peter, “I will make your husband well again.”

“The Petester” took a tube of ointment out of his pocket and cured the sick man in the blink of an eye so that he stood right up perfectly healthy.

“How can we ever repay you? What can we give you?” said the husband and wife in their great joy. But St. Peter would not take anything, and the more the poor people offered, the more he declined.

Well, I nudged St. Peter and said, “Go on, take something, we could use it.” Finally, the farmer’s wife brought a lamb, saying we must take it, but old St. Petey said he did not want it.

I poked St. Peter in the ribs and said, “Take it, you blockhead. We can surely use it.” And so finally St. Peter said, “All right, I’ll take the lamb, but I won’t carry it. If you want it, you carry it.”

“Don’t worry, “I’ll carry it all right,” I said. And I put the lamb across my shoulders.

Thursday: “I Can’t Believe I Ate the Whole thing!”

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The Adventures of Brother Jim based on the story “Brother Gaily” from The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm.