Another brought dried figs and grapes and a skin of red wine.

Other shepherds brought milk and bread and a fat kid; every one brought something, just as they took tithes to the officer.

An old shepherd came with a patched bagpipe, and when the bystanders laughed, Ishmael said: "Do you expect our poor, good Isaac, to bring David's golden harp?
He gives what he has, and that's often worth more than golden harps." When they came down they no longer saw the star or the angels, but they found the cave, and the father and the mother and the child.

He lay in the manger on the hay, and the beasts stood round and gazed at him with their big, melancholy, black eyes.

The shepherd's pity for the poor people was so great that no one thought he was doing a good work for which people would praise him and God would bless him.