Zwirbels 8th Birthday
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Zwirbel is a cow child ...
...and she lives in Switzerland, in Leuk, near the Matterhorn. Switzerland is where the famed „Heidi“comes from and where the mountains are finishing near the stars. It's spring and Zwirbel allowed for the first time with the grandmother on the alp and the summer in the mountains.
Zwirbels mother „Lady Dieskau“ is admired by all sides.
She is he most beautiful cow in Europe, wears a crown and tells exciting stories of cow parades. This summer she wants to travel to the Cow- Miss- World challenge to become the most beautiful cow of the world. When the cow’s herd starts to move, Zwirbel takes a little bit sadly farewell from her mother…
Next day in the daybreak Zwirbel finds sea fins on the Daubensea which she takes on hurriedly to learn to swim.
„I want to learn to swim and then I want to swim to my mother, over the seas“, thinks Zwirbel hopeful. But it’s hard to learn to swim. Sea fins can’t hold a cow about the water.
Finally, Zwirbel trashes desperately from the water and sees a star which comes closer and closer.
“Little cow”
says the star, „I’m the heaven bear and my name is Minor. I come from the star’s world and I’m a King’s son. My father is Zeus, people call him Jupiter. My mother is he Big Bear and my teacher’s name is Bear Guard.” “Why are you a star and a bear at the same time? And why are there bears in heaven?” Zwirbel wants to know.
„Yes, star bears, little cow!”
„My name is Zwirbel and I want to fly too“. Zwirbel tells her story to Minor. „ I can help you, little cow“, says Minor, „but we need a feather of an eagle. I was a prince and I lived near the people before I became a heaven bear. Once when I was very disobient, my father threw my as a bear to the sky.
I’ve learned from my father that the eagle is the king of all birds and that they are many forces in his feathers. When I glide over your legs and your body with the eagle feather, then you can fly. At the sunrise, I’ll help you to find the eagle. He lives next to the Pfynwald, near to the Matterhorn”. Would you please wait for me, Zwirbel.”
Zwirbel remembers herself to the big mountain, the Matterhorn. She tears off before it’s getting dark and it’s impossible for her to wait for Minor. She also forgets to answer her mother and, because of her excitement, doesn’t think about that her mother would be very afraid.
The sun has been gone at the same time. It becomes lugubrious in the forest and a purring sound is to be heard. A strange bird with big dark eyes, which bangs his wings by clashing them, comes near to her.
„Oh, du you milk goats, bird number 201,“ wants to know Zwirbel. „Yes, it’s written in an old legend: we milk goats secretly, but that’s not true. We hide lastingly from the goats, they’re always grumbling and they’re bold.” Zwirbel tells about her friends and the eagle feather. Bird number 201 promises to help to find the feather at the next morning.
But before the sun rises the next morning, Zwirbel attacks off. On the Alps, near to the Matterhorn, Zwirbel meets a goat which grumbles about the meager herbs which she must find in the slopes. „What are you searching for, little cow?“ Zwirbel tells about her story. The goat is enthusiastic about her intention. „I’m Panina and I went with the train from Graubünden to Zermatt, to pass the summer here in Wallis. I come from the Swiss National Park, where lives the eagles. I’ll take you to the Eyrie, if you want it too.”
„Oh yes, let’s get started”, begs Zwirbel.
They rise in the valley, and when they come to the Furka Oberalp Railway Station, and when the platoon helps the people to get into the “Glacier Express, they run to the mail car. Hops, this has gone well just one more time! Tshou tshou tshou, and the train gets on movement.
„Now we are blind passengers“grumbles Panina. „But I’m not blind. I can watch over the mail car window”. „Oh little Zwirbel, we are blind passengers, because we have no tickets. Actually it’s forbidden, but there are exceptions for important reasons”. „Is it an important reason when a child is a cow?” wants to know Zwirbel. „Yes, animals are no passenger“ explains Panina . „Come on, Zwirbel, let us play, you will count the tunnels while I will count the bridges. The train passes over 291 bridges and under 91 tunnels between Zermatt and St. Moritz…“
St. Moritz... „Everybody gets out! “ calls the lane chief. Zwirbel and Panina slip unnoticed of the mail car and start cheerfully to the eyrie.
When they arrive about the forest border, Zwirbel calls „Look Panina, your mother is there, over the rocks“. „Oh no, Zwirbel, it’s a Capricorn“. „He looks like a goat, but he lives the whole year in the mountains“. When, finally, they arrive on the Alps, they are very happy. because they meet Paninas parents. They are very happy. There are many things to tell about. When it gets dark, Zwirbel looks to the sky and she thinks about Minor, the little bear. Would he be angry to her, because she didn’t wait for him at the sea?
Early in the morning Zwirbel and Panina set off. On their way they meet butterflies. The moth Engadinerbär mocks: „And so, and so, you want to get to the eagle? He has no time for a little cow and a goat, because he has to supply for his children”. They let tell the moth, only Panina grumbles: “Butterflies are always telling, but they know nothing!”
Farther at the top the marmot also wants to know, why a cow and a goat climb to the highest mountains.
Zwirbel tells her story! The marmot is enthusiastic and he’s telling: » I know the little bear; he lives on the Engadine Sea Lej Minor, in the Val Minor Valley. The marmot wants to go with Zwirbel and Panina and he’s begging: “I want to fly too!”
So all „three“continue and they arrive to the High Mountains. At last they see the nest of the eagle on a crag.
With ticklish feeling they climb up between abysses and rocks. Soonly the snow is so deep, hat you can’t see the marmot any longer. Among them circles the eagle. He observes the brown small spot under them and the thinks: „This could do fodder form y children“and dives in the depth.
Fortunately Zwirbel knows the danger and she throws herself bravely about the marmot. The eagle throws himself quickly against upwards.
Released, all three look to the eyrie and they see a feather falling down from heaven. All climb happily to the Alps with the found feather. Minor is coming next to them!
“Hi Zwirbel…
I was searching for you and I was afflicted you could have got lost?” „No, Minor, I have found new friends. “
„The goat Panina and the marmot, they had help me to find the eagle feather and they want to fly to the wide world too. “ „Friends must been hold together“answers Minor seriously,” so let’s start together immediately”. Minor touches her friends with the eagle feather and floating, they glide by the air to the Valais.
When they arrive to Valais, the mother of Zwirbel knows her child and she’s opening her arms.
Zwirbel comes in softly and happily.
„Where have you been? I was so scared about you“
„ You’ll never do something else, without telling it to me. Promise it to me!”
Zwirbel promises, always to think about it.
Zwirbel tells about the adventure with the little bear Minor, the marmot and the eagle feather.
When Zwirbel tells about the Teddy- Cow- Competition in Moscow, her mother is not enthusiastic.
Only when Minor promises to look about Zwirbel, she agrees. It should start the next day…
The next night anyone can’t get asleep and Zwirbel wants to know from Minor: „Can’t the marmot take on my swim fins to get a better flight?” „Very good idea“says Minor, very enthusiastic. When the sun rises, the butterflies „Mister and Misses Blue“watch them amused and note: „May we order the wind? “ „No, thanks, Blue & Blue, we’re counting on Minor, he knows all times“says Zwirbel.
Zwirbel receives the small bell from her mother with on is written:
You don’t need much to be happy And you’re a king if you’re happy
It’s time to say goodbye!
After burglary of the darkness .
Zwirbel, Minor, Panina and the marmot begin to fly. The next night the marmot can fly in the rams of Minor. How good is feels, that the little bear knows everything in heaven. The next day they land happily in….…
