once when they had spent the night in the wood and the dawn had roused them, they saw a beautiful child in a shining white dress sitting near their bed. he got up and looked quite kindly at them, but said nothing and went away into the forest. and when they looked round they found that they had been sleeping quite close to a precipice, and would certainly have fallen into it in the darkness if they had gone only a few paces further. and their mother told them that it must have been the angel who watches over good children.