The Master-Smith

Once on a time, in the days when our Lord and St Peter used to wander on earth, they came to a smith’s house. He had made a bargain with the Devil, that the fiend should have him after seven years, but during that time he was to be the master of all masters in his trade, and to this bargain both he and the Devil had signed their names. So he had stuck up in great letters over the door of his forge: _“Here dwells the Master over all Masters.”_

Pada suatu masa, di hari-hari ketika Tuhan kita dan Santo Petrus masih mengembara di bumi, mereka tiba di rumah seorang pandai besi. Ia telah membuat kesepakatan dengan Iblis, bahwa si iblis akan mendapatkannya setelah tujuh tahun, tetapi selama masa itu ia akan menjadi tuan dari segala tuan dalam bidangnya, dan untuk kesepakatan ini baik ia maupun Iblis telah menandatangani nama mereka. Maka ia telah menempelkan dengan huruf-huruf besar di atas pintu bengkelnya: _"Di sinilah tinggal Tuan di atas segala Tuan."_

Now when our Lord passed by and saw that, he went in.

Nah ketika Tuhan kita lewat dan melihat itu, ia masuk ke dalam.

“Who are you?” he said to the Smith.

"Siapa kau?" tanyanya kepada Sang Pandai Besi.

“Read what’s written over the door”, said the Smith; “but maybe you can’t read writing. If so, you must wait till some one comes to help you.”

"Bacalah apa yang tertulis di atas pintu," kata Sang Pandai Besi; "tapi mungkin kau tak bisa membaca tulisan. Kalau begitu, kau harus menunggu sampai ada yang datang membantumu."

Before our Lord had time to answer him, a man came with his horse, which he begged the Smith to shoe.

Sebelum Tuhan kita sempat menjawabnya, datanglah seorang lelaki dengan kudanya, yang ia minta agar Sang Pandai Besi memasangkan sepatu kuda.

“Might I have leave to shoe it?” asked our Lord.

"Bolehkah aku mendapat izin untuk memasangkan sepatunya?" tanya Tuhan kita.

“You may try, if you like”, said the Smith; “you can’t do it so badly that I shall not be able to make it right again.”

"Kau boleh coba, kalau kau mau," kata Sang Pandai Besi; "kau tak akan bisa melakukannya seburuk itu sampai aku tak bisa memperbaikinya lagi."

So our Lord went out and took one leg off the horse, and laid it in the furnace, and made the shoe red-hot; after that, he turned up the ends of the shoe, and filed down the heads of the nails, and clenched the points; and then he put back the leg safe and sound on the horse again.

Maka Tuhan kita pergi keluar dan melepas satu kaki dari kuda itu, dan meletakkannya di dalam tungku, dan membuat sepatu kuda itu membara merah; setelah itu, ia melengkungkan ujung-ujung sepatu itu, dan mengikir kepala paku-pakunya, dan menjepit ujung-ujungnya; lalu ia memasang kembali kaki itu dengan aman dan utuh ke kuda itu.

And when he was done with that leg, he took the other fore-leg and did the same with it; and when he was done with that, he took the hind-legs—first, the off, and then the near leg, and laid them in the furnace, making the shoes red-hot, turning up the ends; filing the heads of the nails, and clenching the points; and after all was done, putting the legs on the horse again. All the while, the Smith stood by and looked on.

Dan ketika ia selesai dengan kaki itu, ia mengambil kaki depan yang lain dan melakukan hal yang sama padanya; dan ketika ia selesai dengan itu, ia mengambil kaki-kaki belakang—pertama, yang kanan, lalu yang kiri, dan meletakkannya di dalam tungku, membuat sepatu-sepatu itu membara merah, melengkungkan ujung-ujungnya; mengikir kepala paku-pakunya, dan menjepit ujung-ujungnya; dan setelah semua selesai, memasang kembali kaki-kaki itu ke kuda itu. Sepanjang waktu itu, Sang Pandai Besi berdiri di sana dan mengamati.

“You’re not so bad a smith after all”, said he.

"Ternyata kau bukan pandai besi yang buruk juga," katanya.

“Oh, you think so, do you?” said our Lord.

"Oh, kau pikir begitu, ya?" kata Tuhan kita.

A little while after came the Smith’s mother to the forge, and called him to come home and eat his dinner; she was an old, old woman with an ugly crook on her back, and wrinkles in her face, and it was as much as she could do to crawl along.

Sesaat kemudian datanglah ibu Sang Pandai Besi ke bengkel itu, dan memanggilnya pulang untuk makan malam; ia adalah seorang wanita yang sangat tua dengan punggung bungkuk yang buruk, dan kerutan di wajahnya, dan ia hampir tak mampu merangkak berjalan.

“Mark now, what you see”, said our Lord.

"Perhatikanlah sekarang, apa yang kau lihat," kata Tuhan kita.

Then he took the woman and laid her in the furnace, and smithied a lovely young maiden out of her.

Kemudian ia mengambil wanita itu dan meletakkannya di dalam tungku, dan menempa darinya seorang gadis muda yang cantik jelita.

“Well”, said the Smith, “I say now, as I said before, you are not such a bad smith after all. There it stands over my door. _Here dwells the Master over all Masters_ ; but for all that, I say right out, one learns as long as one lives”; and with that he walked off to his house and ate his dinner.

"Nah," kata Sang Pandai Besi, "kukatakan sekarang, seperti yang kukatakan tadi, kau bukan pandai besi yang buruk juga. Di sana tertulis di atas pintuku. _Di sinilah tinggal Tuan di atas segala Tuan_; tapi meski begitu, sejujurnya kukatakan, orang terus belajar selama ia hidup"; dan dengan itu ia berjalan pergi ke rumahnya dan menyantap makan malamnya.

So after dinner, just after he had got back to his forge, a man came riding up to have his horse shod.

Maka setelah makan malam, tepat setelah ia kembali ke bengkelnya, seorang lelaki datang menunggang kuda untuk memasangkan sepatu kudanya.

“It shall be done in the twinkling of an eye”, said the Smith, “for I have just learnt a new way to shoe; and a very good way it is when the days are short.”

"Ini akan selesai dalam sekejap mata," kata Sang Pandai Besi, "sebab aku baru saja mempelajari cara baru untuk memasang sepatu kuda; dan itu cara yang sangat bagus ketika hari-hari singkat."

So he began to cut and hack till he had got all the horse’s legs off, for he said, I don’t know why one should go pottering backwards and forwards—first, with one leg, and then with another.

Maka ia mulai memotong dan mencincang sampai ia melepas semua kaki kuda itu, sebab katanya, aku tak tahu kenapa orang harus bolak-balik—pertama, dengan satu kaki, lalu dengan kaki yang lain.

Then he laid the legs in the furnace, just as he had seen our Lord lay them, and threw on a great heap of coal, and made his mates work the bellows bravely; but it went as one might suppose it would go. The legs were burnt to ashes, and the Smith had to pay for the horse.

Kemudian ia meletakkan kaki-kaki itu di dalam tungku, persis seperti yang ia lihat Tuhan kita lakukan, dan melemparkan seonggok besar arang, dan menyuruh rekan-rekannya mengoperasikan pembakar dengan giat; tetapi hasilnya seperti yang bisa diduga. Kaki-kaki itu hangus jadi abu, dan Sang Pandai Besi harus membayar ganti rugi untuk kuda itu.

Well, he didn’t care much about that, but just then an old beggar-woman came along the road, and he thought to himself, “better luck next time”; so he took the old dame and laid her in the furnace, and though she begged and prayed hard for her life, it was no good.

Yah, ia tak terlalu peduli soal itu, tetapi tepat saat itu seorang nenek pengemis tua lewat di jalan, dan ia berpikir dalam hati, "semoga beruntung kali ini"; maka ia mengambil nenek tua itu dan meletakkannya di dalam tungku, dan meskipun ia memohon dan berdoa keras demi nyawanya, tak ada gunanya.

“You’re so old, you don’t know what is good for you”, said the Smith; “now you shall be a lovely young maiden in half no time, and for all that, I’ll not charge you a penny for the job.”

"Kau sudah begitu tua, kau tak tahu apa yang baik untukmu," kata Sang Pandai Besi; "sekarang kau akan menjadi gadis muda yang cantik jelita dalam sekejap, dan untuk itu semua, aku tak akan memungut sepeser pun untuk pekerjaan ini."

But it went no better with the poor old woman than with the horse’s legs.

Tetapi hasilnya tak lebih baik bagi wanita tua yang malang itu dibandingkan dengan kaki-kaki kuda itu.

“That was ill done, and I say it”, said our Lord.

"Itu perbuatan buruk, dan kukatakan itu," kata Tuhan kita.

“Oh! for that matter”, said the Smith, “there’s not many who’ll ask after her, I’ll be bound; but it’s a shame of the Devil, if this is the way he holds to what is written up over the door.”

"Oh! soal itu," kata Sang Pandai Besi, "tak banyak yang akan mencarinya, aku yakin itu; tapi memalukan bagi Iblis, jika begini caranya ia memegang apa yang tertulis di atas pintu itu."

“If you might have three wishes from me”, said our Lord, “what would you wish for?”

"Jika kau bisa memiliki tiga permintaan dariku," kata Tuhan kita, "apa yang akan kau minta?"

“Only try me”, said the Smith, “and you’ll soon know.”

"Coba saja aku," kata Sang Pandai Besi, "dan kau akan segera tahu."

So our Lord gave him three wishes.

Maka Tuhan kita memberinya tiga permintaan.

“Well”, said the Smith, “first and foremost, I wish that any one whom I ask to climb up into the pear-tree that stands outside by the wall of my forge, may stay sitting there till I ask him to come down again. The second wish I wish is, that any one whom I ask to sit down in my easy chair which stands inside the workshop yonder, may stay sitting there till I ask him to get up. Last of all, I wish that any one whom I ask to creep into the steel purse which I have in my pocket, may stay in it till I give him leave to creep out again.”

"Baiklah," kata Sang Pandai Besi, "pertama dan terutama, aku ingin siapa pun yang kuminta memanjat pohon pir yang berdiri di luar di dekat dinding bengkelku, tetap duduk di sana sampai aku memintanya turun. Permintaan kedua adalah, siapa pun yang kuminta duduk di kursi malasku yang berdiri di dalam bengkel sana, tetap duduk di sana sampai aku memintanya berdiri. Terakhir, aku ingin siapa pun yang kuminta merangkak masuk ke dalam dompet baja yang kupunya di sakuku, tetap di dalamnya sampai aku memberinya izin untuk keluar lagi."

“You have wished as a wicked man”, said St Peter; “first and foremost, you should have wished for God’s grace and goodwill.”

"Kau meminta seperti orang jahat," kata Santo Petrus; "pertama dan terutama, kau seharusnya meminta rahmat dan kebaikan hati Tuhan."

“I durstn’t look so high as that”, said the Smith; and after that our Lord and St Peter bade him “good-bye”, and went on their way.

"Aku tak berani berharap setinggi itu," kata Sang Pandai Besi; dan setelah itu Tuhan kita dan Santo Petrus mengucapkan "selamat tinggal" padanya, dan melanjutkan perjalanan mereka.

Well, the years went on and on, and when the time was up, the Devil came to fetch the Smith, as it was written in their bargain.

Nah, tahun demi tahun berlalu, dan ketika waktunya tiba, Iblis datang untuk menjemput Sang Pandai Besi, sesuai yang tertulis dalam kesepakatan mereka.

“Are you ready?” he said, as he stuck his nose in at the door of the forge.

"Sudah siap?" katanya, sambil menjulurkan hidungnya ke pintu bengkel.

“Oh”, said the Smith, “I must just hammer the head of this tenpenny nail first; meantime, you can just climb up into the pear-tree, and pluck yourself a pear to gnaw at; you must be, both hungry and thirsty after your journey.”

"Oh," kata Sang Pandai Besi, "aku harus menyelesaikan mengetok kepala paku sepuluh peni ini dulu; sementara itu, kau bisa memanjat pohon pir itu, dan memetik sendiri sebuah pir untuk kau kunyah; kau pasti lapar dan haus setelah perjalananmu."

So the Devil thanked him for his kind offer, and climbed up into the pear-tree.

Maka Iblis pun berterima kasih atas tawaran baiknya, dan memanjat pohon pir itu.

“Very good”, said the Smith; “but now, on thinking the matter over, I find I shall never be able to have done hammering the head of this nail till four years are out at least, this iron is so plaguey hard; down you can’t come in all that time, but may sit up there and rest your bones.”

"Bagus sekali," kata Sang Pandai Besi; "tapi sekarang, setelah kupikir-pikir, aku baru sadar aku tak akan bisa menyelesaikan menempa kepala paku ini sampai setidaknya empat tahun lagi, besi ini begitu keras sialan; kau tak bisa turun selama itu, tapi bisa duduk di sana beristirahat."

When the Devil heard this, he begged and prayed till his voice was as thin as a silver penny that he might have leave to come down; but there was no help for it. There he was, and there he must stay. At last he had to give his word of honour not to come again till the four years were out, which the Smith had spoken of, and then the Smith said, “Very well, now you may come down.”

Ketika Iblis mendengar ini, ia memohon dan berdoa sampai suaranya setipis peni perak agar diizinkan turun; tetapi tak ada gunanya. Di situlah ia, dan di situlah ia harus tinggal. Akhirnya ia harus memberikan janji kehormatannya untuk tak datang lagi sampai empat tahun berlalu, yang telah dikatakan Sang Pandai Besi, dan kemudian Sang Pandai Besi berkata, "Baiklah, sekarang kau boleh turun."

So when the time was up, the Devil came again to fetch the Smith.

Maka ketika waktunya tiba, Iblis datang lagi untuk menjemput Sang Pandai Besi.

“You’re ready now, of course”, said he; “you’ve had time enough to hammer the head of that nail, I should think.”

"Kau pasti sudah siap sekarang," katanya; "kau sudah punya cukup waktu untuk menempa kepala paku itu, kurasa."

“Yes, the head is right enough now”, said the Smith; “but still you have come a little tiny bit too soon, for I haven’t quite done sharpening the point; such plaguey hard iron I never hammered in all my born days. So while I work at the point, you may just as well sit down in my easy chair and rest yourself; I’ll be bound you’re weary after coming so far.”

"Ya, kepalanya sudah cukup bagus sekarang," kata Sang Pandai Besi; "tapi kau datang sedikit terlalu cepat, sebab aku belum selesai menajamkan ujungnya; besi sekeras sialan itu belum pernah kutempa seumur hidupku. Jadi sementara aku mengerjakan ujungnya, kau boleh saja duduk di kursi malasku dan beristirahat; aku yakin kau lelah setelah datang sejauh ini."

“Thank you kindly”, said the Devil, and down he plumped into the easy chair; but just as he had made himself comfortable, the Smith said, on second thoughts, he found he couldn’t get the point sharp till four years were out. First of all, the Devil begged so prettily to be let out of the chair, and afterwards, waxing wroth, he began to threaten and scold; but the Smith kept on, all the while excusing himself, and saying it was all the iron’s fault, it was so plaguy hard, and telling the Devil he was not so badly off to have to sit quietly in an easy chair, and that he would let him out to the minute when the four years were over.

"Terima kasih banyak," kata Iblis, dan ia pun langsung duduk di kursi malas itu; tetapi tepat ketika ia sudah membuat dirinya nyaman, Sang Pandai Besi berkata, setelah berpikir lagi, ia sadar ia tak bisa menajamkan ujungnya sampai empat tahun lagi. Mula-mula, Iblis memohon dengan manis agar dilepaskan dari kursi itu, dan kemudian, menjadi murka, ia mulai mengancam dan memarahi; tetapi Sang Pandai Besi terus saja beralasan, mengatakan itu semua salah besinya, yang begitu keras sialan, dan memberitahu Iblis bahwa ia tak terlalu buruk keadaannya harus duduk tenang di kursi malas, dan bahwa ia akan melepaskannya tepat waktu ketika empat tahun berakhir.

Well, at last there was no help for it, and the Devil had to give his word of honour not to fetch the Smith till the four years were out; and then the Smith said:

Nah, akhirnya tak ada gunanya, dan Iblis harus memberikan janji kehormatannya untuk tak menjemput Sang Pandai Besi sampai empat tahun berlalu; dan kemudian Sang Pandai Besi berkata:

“Well now, you may get up and be off about your business”, and away went the Devil as fast as he could lay legs to the ground.

"Nah sekarang, kau boleh bangun dan pergi urus urusanmu," dan pergilah Iblis secepat kakinya bisa membawanya.

When the four years were over, the Devil came again to fetch the Smith, and he called out, as he stuck his nose in at the door of the forge:

Ketika empat tahun berlalu, Iblis datang lagi untuk menjemput Sang Pandai Besi, dan ia berseru, sambil menjulurkan hidungnya ke pintu bengkel:

“Now, I know you must be ready.”

"Nah, aku tahu kau pasti sudah siap."

“Ready, aye, ready”, answered the Smith; “we can go now as soon as you please; but hark ye, there is one thing I have stood here and thought, and thought, I would ask you to tell me. Is it true what people say, that the Devil can make himself as small as he pleases?”

"Siap, ya, siap," jawab Sang Pandai Besi; "kita bisa pergi sekarang begitu kau mau; tapi dengarkan, ada satu hal yang sudah kupikirkan dan kupikirkan sambil berdiri di sini, yang ingin kutanyakan padamu. Apakah benar apa yang dikatakan orang-orang, bahwa Iblis bisa membuat dirinya sekecil yang ia mau?"

“God knows, it is the very truth”, said the Devil.

"Demi Tuhan, itu benar sekali," kata Iblis.

“Oh!” said the Smith; “it is true, is it? then I wish you would just be so good as to creep into this steel purse of mine, and see whether it is sound at the bottom, for to tell you the truth, I’m afraid my travelling money will drop out.”

"Oh!" kata Sang Pandai Besi; "benar begitu, ya? kalau begitu aku ingin kau berbaik hati merangkak masuk ke dalam dompet bajaku ini, dan lihat apakah bagian bawahnya masih kokoh, sebab sejujurnya, aku khawatir uang perjalananku akan jatuh keluar."

“With all my heart”, said the Devil, who made himself small in a trice, and crept into the purse; but he was scarce in when the Smith snapped to the clasp.

"Dengan senang hati," kata Iblis, yang segera membuat dirinya kecil, dan merangkak masuk ke dalam dompet itu; tetapi baru saja ia masuk, Sang Pandai Besi mengunci kancingnya.

“Yes”, called out the Devil inside the purse; “it’s right and tight everywhere.”

"Ya," seru Iblis dari dalam dompet itu; "semuanya rapat dan kokoh di mana-mana."

“Very good”, said the Smith; “I’m glad to hear you say so, but ‘more haste the worse speed’, says the old saw, and ‘forewarned is forearmed’, says another; so I’ll just weld these links a little together, just for safety’s sake”; and with that he laid the purse in the furnace, and made it red-hot.

"Bagus sekali," kata Sang Pandai Besi; "senang mendengar kau berkata begitu, tapi 'terburu-buru membawa kegagalan', kata pepatah lama, dan 'siap sedia lebih baik daripada terlambat', kata pepatah lain; jadi aku akan mengelas sedikit mata rantai ini bersama-sama, demi keamanan"; dan dengan itu ia meletakkan dompet itu ke dalam tungku, dan membuatnya membara merah.

“AU! AU!” screamed the Devil, “are you mad? don’t you know I’m inside the purse?”

"AU! AU!" jerit Iblis, "apa kau gila? tidakkah kau tahu aku ada di dalam dompet ini?"

“Yes, I do!” said the Smith; “but I can’t help you, for another old saw says, ‘one must strike while the iron is hot’”; and as he said this, he took up his sledge-hammer, laid the purse on the anvil, and let fly at it as hard as he could.

"Ya, aku tahu!" kata Sang Pandai Besi; "tapi aku tak bisa membantumu, sebab pepatah lama lain berkata, 'orang harus memukul selagi besi masih panas'"; dan sambil berkata ini, ia mengambil palu godamnya, meletakkan dompet itu di atas landasan, dan memukulnya sekuat tenaga.

“AU! AU! AU!” bellowed the Devil, inside the purse. “Dear friend, do let me out, and I’ll never come near you again.”

"AU! AU! AU!" raung Iblis, di dalam dompet itu. "Sahabatku, lepaskan aku, dan aku tak akan pernah mendekatimu lagi."

“Very well!” said the Smith; “now, I think, the links are pretty well welded, and you may come out”; so he unclasped the purse, and away went the Devil in such a hurry that he didn’t once look behind him.

"Baiklah!" kata Sang Pandai Besi; "sekarang, kurasa, mata rantainya sudah cukup terlas dengan baik, dan kau boleh keluar"; maka ia membuka kancing dompet itu, dan pergilah Iblis dengan begitu tergesa sehingga ia tak pernah sekali pun menoleh ke belakang.

Now, some time after, it came across the Smith’s mind that he had done a silly thing in making the Devil his enemy, for, he said to himself:

Nah, beberapa waktu kemudian, terpikir oleh Sang Pandai Besi bahwa ia telah melakukan hal bodoh dengan menjadikan Iblis musuhnya, sebab, katanya pada dirinya sendiri:

“If, as is like enough, they won’t have me in the kingdom of Heaven, I shall be in danger of being houseless, since I’ve fallen out with him who rules over Hell.”

"Jika, seperti yang mungkin terjadi, mereka tak mau menerimaku di kerajaan Surga, aku akan berada dalam bahaya tanpa tempat tinggal, karena aku sudah berselisih dengan dia yang menguasai Neraka."

So he made up his mind it would be best to try to get either into Hell or Heaven, and to try at once, rather than to put it off any longer, so that he might know how things really stood. Then he threw his sledge-hammer over his shoulder and set off; and when he had gone a good bit of the way, he came to a place where two roads met, and where the path to the kingdom of Heaven parts from the path that leads to Hell, and here he overtook a tailor, who was pelting along with his goose in his hand.

Maka ia memutuskan bahwa yang terbaik adalah mencoba masuk ke Neraka atau Surga, dan mencoba segera, daripada menunda-nundanya lebih lama lagi, agar ia bisa tahu bagaimana sebenarnya keadaannya. Kemudian ia melemparkan palu godamnya ke bahunya dan berangkat; dan ketika ia sudah berjalan cukup jauh, ia tiba di sebuah tempat di mana dua jalan bertemu, dan tempat jalan menuju kerajaan Surga berpisah dari jalan yang menuju Neraka, dan di sini ia menyusul seorang penjahit, yang sedang bergegas dengan setrikanya di tangan.

“Good day”, said the Smith; “whither are you off to?”

"Selamat siang," kata Sang Pandai Besi; "kau hendak ke mana?"

“To the kingdom of Heaven”, said the Tailor, “if I can only get into it”—“but whither are you going yourself?”

"Ke kerajaan Surga," kata Sang Penjahit, "kalau saja aku bisa masuk ke sana"—"tapi kau sendiri hendak ke mana?"

“Oh, our ways don’t run together”, said the Smith; “for I have made up my mind to try first in Hell, as the Devil and I know something of one another, from old times.”

"Oh, jalan kita tak sama," kata Sang Pandai Besi; "sebab aku sudah memutuskan untuk mencoba dulu di Neraka, karena Iblis dan aku saling kenal sejak dulu."

So they bade one another “Good-bye”, and each went his way; but the Smith was a stout, strong man, and got over the ground far faster than the tailor, and so it wasn’t long before he stood at the gates of Hell. Then he called the watch, and bade him go and tell the Devil there was some one outside who wished to speak a word with him.

Maka mereka saling mengucapkan "selamat tinggal", dan masing-masing pergi ke jalannya sendiri; tetapi Sang Pandai Besi adalah lelaki yang kekar dan kuat, dan berjalan jauh lebih cepat daripada sang penjahit, sehingga tak lama kemudian ia sudah berdiri di gerbang Neraka. Kemudian ia memanggil sang penjaga, dan memintanya pergi memberitahu Iblis bahwa ada seseorang di luar yang ingin bicara sepatah kata dengannya.

“Go out”, said the Devil to the watch, “and ask him who he is?” So that when the watch came and told him that, the Smith answered:

"Pergi keluar," kata Iblis kepada sang penjaga, "dan tanya siapa dia?" Maka ketika sang penjaga datang dan memberitahunya itu, Sang Pandai Besi menjawab:

“Go and greet the Devil in my name, and say it is the Smith who owns the purse he wots of; and beg him prettily to let me in at once, for I worked at my forge till noon, and I have had a long walk since.”

"Pergi dan sampaikan salam pada Iblis atas namaku, dan katakan itu Sang Pandai Besi yang memiliki dompet yang ia tahu; dan mohonlah padanya dengan manis untuk segera membiarkanku masuk, sebab aku bekerja di bengkelku sampai tengah hari, dan aku sudah berjalan jauh sejak itu."

But when the Devil heard who it was, he charged the watch to go back and lock up all the nine locks on the gates of Hell.

Tetapi ketika Iblis mendengar siapa itu, ia memerintahkan sang penjaga untuk kembali dan mengunci semua sembilan kunci di gerbang Neraka.

“And, besides”, he said, “you may as well put on a padlock, for if he only once gets in, he’ll turn Hell topsy-turvy!”

"Dan, lagipula," katanya, "kau sebaiknya juga pasang gembok, sebab jika ia sekali saja berhasil masuk, ia akan membuat Neraka porak-poranda!"

“Well!” said the Smith to himself, when he saw them busy bolting up the gates, “there’s no lodging to be got here, that’s plain; so I may as well try my luck in the kingdom of Heaven”; and with that he turned round and went back till he reached the cross-roads, and then he went along the path the tailor had taken. And now, as he was cross at having gone backwards and forwards so far for no good, he strode along with all his might, and reached the gate of Heaven just as St Peter was opening it a very little, just enough to let the half-starved tailor slip in. The Smith was still six or seven strides off the gate, so he thought to himself, “Now there’s no time to be lost”; and, grasping his sledge-hammer, he hurled it into the opening of the door just as the tailor slunk in; and if the Smith didn’t get in then, when the door was ajar, why I don’t know what has become of him.

"Baiklah!" kata Sang Pandai Besi pada dirinya sendiri, ketika ia melihat mereka sibuk mengunci gerbang-gerbang itu, "tak ada tempat menginap di sini, itu jelas; jadi aku sebaiknya coba peruntunganku di kerajaan Surga"; dan dengan itu ia berbalik dan kembali sampai ia mencapai persimpangan jalan itu, dan kemudian ia berjalan menyusuri jalan yang telah dilalui sang penjahit. Dan sekarang, karena ia kesal telah bolak-balik sejauh itu tanpa hasil, ia melangkah sekuat tenaga, dan tiba di gerbang Surga tepat ketika Santo Petrus membukanya sedikit, hanya cukup untuk membiarkan sang penjahit yang setengah kelaparan menyelinap masuk. Sang Pandai Besi masih berjarak enam atau tujuh langkah dari gerbang itu, jadi ia berpikir dalam hati, "Sekarang tak ada waktu untuk dibuang-buang"; dan, sambil menggenggam palu godamnya, ia melemparkannya ke celah pintu itu tepat ketika sang penjahit menyelinap masuk; dan jika Sang Pandai Besi tak berhasil masuk saat itu, ketika pintu itu terbuka sedikit, entah apa yang terjadi padanya.