Anna og Rudolph, hans to børn, blev passet af jordemoderen og efter bondekonens begravelse, som hele landsbyen overværede blev de to ulykker hurtigt glemt indtil høstfesten i sensommeren skulle genforene hele landsbyen.
Anna and Rudolph, his two children, were cared for meanwhile by the midwife. After the farmer's wife's funeral, which the whole village attended, both accidents were forgotten until the end of the summer, when the harvest feast reunited the whole village, first in a joyful mood, then in horror and perplexity.